Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management.Robert Costanza &Bryan G. Norton -1992detailsDiscusses managing the environment from philosophical, scientific, and political perspectives.
Science and Ecological Economics: Integrating of the Study of Humans and the Rest of Nature.Robert Costanza -2009 -Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 29 (5):358-373.detailsEcological economics is a transdisciplinary field that seeks to integrate the study of humans and the rest of nature as the basis for the creation of a sustainable and desirable future. It seeks to dissolve the barriers between the traditional disciplines and achieve a true consilience of all the sciences and humanities. This consilient, transdisciplinary science represents a rebalancing of analysis and synthesis; a recognition of the central role of envisioning in science; a pragmatic philosophy built on complex systems theory, (...) thermodynamics, and modeling; a multiscale approach; and a consistent integration of cultural and biological coevolution. It will allow us to build a world that is both sustainable and desirable and that recognizes our fundamental partnership with the rest of nature. (shrink)
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