Paavola, J and Røpke, I (2015) Environment and Sustainability. In: Davies, JB and Dolfsma, W, (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Social Economics. Edward Elgar , 15 - 32. ISBN 9781783478538
Abstract
Many central concerns of social economics, such as embeddedness, plural values and social justice, are highly pertinent to environment and sustainability. Somewhat paradoxically, there has been relatively little research on environment and sustainability in the core social-economics research community. But this is not to say that social-economics research on the environment and sustainability does not exist. This research has just been mostly carried out by scholars identifying themselves with ecological economics or political ecology. Our chapter sets this scholarship in its broader context and examines in some detail some of its core research strands. In what follows, we will first briefly discuss how we understand social economics, how it has related to the emerging agenda of research on the environment, and how that research has become institutionalized. We will then examine in somewhat greater detail two areas of environmental research where social economics plays a significant role: the research on institutional sources of environmental problems; and the research on monetary valuation and environmental decision making. We conclude the chapter with a brief assessment of the likely future agenda for social-economic research on environment and sustainability.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2015 15:37 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2016 08:18 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781783478545 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edward Elgar |
Identification Number: | 10.4337/9781783478545 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:86506 |