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| Title: | | What is sustainability economics?  |
| Authors: | | Baumgärtner, Stefan Quaas, Martin |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics 138 |
| Abstract: | | While economists have been contributing to the discussion of various aspects of sustainability for decades, it is just recently that the term sustainability economics was used explicitly in the ecological, environmental, and resource economics community. Yet, the contributions that use the term sustainability economics do not refer to any explicit definition of the term, and are not obviously joined by common or unifying characteristics, such as subject focus, methodology, or institutional background. The question thus arises: What is sustainability economics? In this essay, we make an attempt at systematically defining and delineating what sustainability economics could be in terms of its normative foundation, aims, subject matter, ontology, epistemology, and genuine research agenda. |
| Subjects: | | Economics efficiency epistemology fairness future justice human-nature-relationship ontology philosophy of science sustainability uncertainty |
| JEL: | | Q0 D63 B0 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series in Economics, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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