Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- International praise for Environmental Literacy in Science and Society
- Preamble
- Overview: roadmap to environmental literacy
- I Invention of the environment: origins, transdisciplinarity, and theory of science perspectives
- II History of mind of biological knowledge
- III Contributions of psychology
- IV Contributions of sociology
- V Contributions of economics
- VI Contributions of industrial ecology
- VII Beyond disciplines and sciences
- VIII A framework for investigating human–environment systems (HES)
- IX Perspectives for environmental literacy
- Glossary
- References
- Index
V - Contributions of economics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- International praise for Environmental Literacy in Science and Society
- Preamble
- Overview: roadmap to environmental literacy
- I Invention of the environment: origins, transdisciplinarity, and theory of science perspectives
- II History of mind of biological knowledge
- III Contributions of psychology
- IV Contributions of sociology
- V Contributions of economics
- VI Contributions of industrial ecology
- VII Beyond disciplines and sciences
- VIII A framework for investigating human–environment systems (HES)
- IX Perspectives for environmental literacy
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Key questions (see key questions 1–3 of the Preamble)
Contributions from economics to environmental literacy
Q1 What parts of the material–biophysical environment have been incorporated into economic theories, why, and when?
Q2 Based on economic theories, what rationales can we expect/do we see from markets and market actors when natural resources are involved?
Q3 How can the various subfields of economics, such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, and institutional economics, inform environmental literacy?
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- Environmental Literacy in Science and SocietyFrom Knowledge to Decisions, pp. 255 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011