Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Reports |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44728 |
| Document | publication document |
| Title (Primary) | Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics. The role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter and transdisciplinary sustainability research |
| Author | Baumgärtner, S.; Becker, C.; Frank, K.
; Müller, B.
; Quaas, M. |
| Source Titel | UFZ-Diskussionspapiere |
| Year | 2008 |
| Department | OESA |
| Volume | 2/2008 |
| Page To | 21 |
| Language | englisch |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=775 |
| Baumgärtner, S., Becker, C., Frank, K., Müller, B., Quaas, M. (2008): Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics. The role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter and transdisciplinary sustainability research UFZ-Diskussionspapiere 2/2008 UFZ Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Leipzig, 21 pp. |
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