Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics: the role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research
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Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics : the role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research. / Baumgärtner, Stefan.
Lüneburg : Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2008. (Working paper series in economics; No. 75).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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T1 - Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics
T2 - the role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research
AU - Baumgärtner, Stefan
N1 - Literaturangaben
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We develop a comprehensive multi-level approach to ecological economics (CML-approach) which integrates philosophical considerations on the foundations of ecological economics with an adequate operationalization. We argue that the subject matter and aims of ecological economics require a specific combination of inter- and transdisciplinary research, and discuss the epistemological position on which this approach is based. In accordance with this understanding of inter- and transdisciplinarity and the underlying epistemological position, we develop an operationalization which comprises simultaneous analysis on three levels of abstraction: concepts, models and case studies. We explain these levels in detail, and, in particular, deduce our way of generic modeling in this context. Finally, we illustrate the CML-approach and demonstrate its fruitfulness by the example of the sustainable management of semi-arid rangelands.
AB - We develop a comprehensive multi-level approach to ecological economics (CML-approach) which integrates philosophical considerations on the foundations of ecological economics with an adequate operationalization. We argue that the subject matter and aims of ecological economics require a specific combination of inter- and transdisciplinary research, and discuss the epistemological position on which this approach is based. In accordance with this understanding of inter- and transdisciplinarity and the underlying epistemological position, we develop an operationalization which comprises simultaneous analysis on three levels of abstraction: concepts, models and case studies. We explain these levels in detail, and, in particular, deduce our way of generic modeling in this context. Finally, we illustrate the CML-approach and demonstrate its fruitfulness by the example of the sustainable management of semi-arid rangelands.
KW - Economics
KW - ecological economics
KW - interdisciplinarity
KW - philosophy of science
KW - transdisciplinarity
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in economics
BT - Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -