Ecological Economics

期刊简介：The journal is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature's household" (ecosystems) and "humanity's household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership.Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.

【译文】这本期刊关注于扩展和整合对“自然的家庭”（生态系统）和“人类的家庭”（经济）之间界面和相互作用的了解。生态经济学是一个跨学科领域，它由一系列具体问题或挑战定义，这些问题或挑战与以促进人类福祉、可持续性和正义的方式治理经济活动相关。因此，该期刊强调那些借鉴和整合生态科学、经济学、价值观分析、行为、文化实践、制度结构和社会动态等要素的批判性工作。该期刊在精神和方法上都是跨学科的，借鉴了各种知识传统的见解，并吸引着多样化的读者。涵盖的研究领域包括：自然资源的评估、可持续农业和发展、生态集成技术、从地方到区域再到全球尺度的生态经济综合建模、热力学对经济学和生态学的影响、可再生资源的管理和保护、对当前经济和生态范式基本假设的批判性评估及其替代假设的影响、基因工程生物的经济和生态后果、基因库的清点和管理、评估自然财富的替代原则、将自然资源和环境服务纳入国民收入和财富账户、实施有效环境政策的方法、经济-生态冲突或和谐案例研究等。这一领域的新问题正在迅速出现，将在《生态经济学》中找到合适的论坛。