PART I - INTERDEPENDENT SYSTEMS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Ecological economics starts from the fact that human and natural systems are interdependent. The environment is the material base for economic activity.
Chapter 2 will explain those aspects of the functioning of environmental systems that are particularly relevant to an understanding of economy–environment interdependence. The nature of that interdependence has changed a great deal in the course of human history, as is explained in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 develops a conceptual framework, a model, for the study of the way a modern economy interacts with its environment.
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- Ecological EconomicsAn Introduction, pp. 19 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005