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| Author: | Hukkinen, J. |
| Title: | Eco-efficiency as abandonment of nature |
| Journal: | Ecological Economics
2001 : SEP, VOL. 38:3, p. 311-315 |
| Index terms: | Ecology Environmental economics |
| Freeterms: | Eco-efficiency Human-environmental interaction Ecosystem |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The author argues that eco-efficiency is fundamentally disruptive when promoted as a universal prescription for environmental policy. Eco-efficiency runs against the cognitive and institutional bases of sustainable human-environmental interaction. At the cognitive level, eco-efficiency assumes that an individual's concern for the environment can be decoupled from his or her material dependency on ecosystem services. At the collective level, eco-efficiency builds upon decoupling environmental governance from the local socio-economic and cultural context. The author states that the criterion for adopting eco-efficiency should be the extent to which it promotes the recoupling of human perception of environmental issues with human action on environment. |
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