Why do environmental and ecological economics diverge?: comparison of the ideological, institutional and scientific backgrounds of the main actors

Petrović, Nikola (2022) Why do environmental and ecological economics diverge?: comparison of the ideological, institutional and scientific backgrounds of the main actors. Science and technology studies, 35 (1). pp. 35-57. ISSN 2243-4690

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Abstract

IN ENGLISH: Environmental economics and ecological economics became established scientific fields as a result of the growth and the success of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Using the strong programme in the sociology of scientific knowledge and the general theory of scientific/intellectual movements, this article compares four pairs of scholars (two pairs of scholars appropriated for these fields and fields’ founders during the emergence and establishment of the fields). The article depicts how their institutional, ideological and scientific backgrounds contributed to the divergence of these fields. Practitioners of environmental economics and ecological economics were influenced by different strands of the environmental movement. Environmental economics has epistemological and institutional links with environmentalism and ecological economics with ecologism. Different types of interdisciplinarity were used in these fields—a bridge building type of interdisciplinarity in the case of environmental economics and a restructuring and integrative in the case of ecological economics. --------------- IN CROATIAN: Ekonomika okoliša i ekološka ekonomija postale su etablirana znanstvena polja kao rezultat rasta i uspjeha ekološkog pokreta u 1960.-im u 1970.-im. Koristeći strogi program sociologije znanja i generalnu teoriju znanstvenih/intelektualnih pokreta, ovaj članak uspoređuje četiri para znanstvenika (dva para znanstvenika aproprirana od ovih polja i osnivače polja tijekom nastanka i utemeljenja oba polja). Članak opisuje kako su njihovi institucionalni, ideološki i znanstveni backgroundi doprinijeli divergenciji ovih polja. Na utemeljitelje ekonomike okoliša i ekološke ekonomije utjecale su različite struje ekološkog pokreta. Ekonomika okoliša ima epistemološke i institucionalne veze s environmentalizmom, a ekološka ekonomija s ekologizmom. Različiti tipovi interdisciplinarnosti su korišteni u ovim poljima - u slučaju ekonomike okoliša premošćujući tip interdisciplinarnosti, a u slučaju ekološke ekonomije restrukturirajući i integrativan tipovi interdisciplinarnosti.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Language: English. - Title in Croatian: Zašto divergiraju ekonomika okoliša i ekološka ekonomija?: usporedba ideoloških, institucionalnih i znanstvenih backgrounda ključnih aktera.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Environmental economics, ecological economics, environmental evolution, green ideology, interdisciplinarity, scientific fields (ekonomika okoliša, ekološka ekonomija, ekološka revolucija, zelena ideologija, intedisciplinarnost, znanstvena polja)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Depositing User: Karolina
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2021 18:20
Last Modified: 29 Jun 2022 14:05
URI: http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/961

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