Costanza, Robert; Cleveland, Cutler J.; Perrings, Charles
Abstract
This paper is a sample of the range of transdisciplinary thinking that can be put under the heading of ecological economics and the theories and models that have informed that work. The article traces the development of ecological economics including its basic organizing principles. Its characteristics make ecological economics applicable to some of the major problems facing humanity today, which occur at the interfaces of human and natural systems, and especially to the problem of assuring humanity’s health and survival within the biosphere into the indefinite future. The solutions being considered in ecological economics are deserving of increasing attention.
