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Comparing Environmental and Ecological Economics: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Comparing Environmental and Ecological Economics Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

Edited By Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska Copyright 2027
288 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The degradation of the natural environment, highlighted through the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity decline and pollution of seas and oceans, continues to deepen. Contributing to the academic debates around the optimal environmental policy solutions to deal with the crisis, this book critically compares the approaches of environmental and ecological economics. The... Read more

About the editor

List of contributors

Introduction                                                            Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska

Part I      Theoretical Foundations of Environmental Use and Protection

1. Environmental, Ecological or Degrowth Economics? Normative Ambitions, Theoretical Assumptions and the Feasibility of Their Postulates

Ewa Bińczyk

 2. Is Environmental Economics Ecological?

Tomasz Żylicz

3. Resilience Value is the Insurance Value of Biodiversity

Thomas Hahn

4. Criticism of Ecological Growth Optimism of Neoclassical Environmental Economics by Ecological Economics

Bogusław Fiedor

5. Not Only Scale Matters. Theoretical and Practical Implications of Transition from an Empty to a Full World by Herman Daly

Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska

6. Sozology - the Forgotten Contribution of Polish Economic Thought to the Development of Environmental and Ecological Economics

Agnieszka Becla and Stanisław Czaja

Part II         A Practical Approach to the Protection and Use of the Environment

7. Market and Non-market Methods of Adapting Agricultural Production to Drought in Poland. Assessment of the Status Quo and Proposals for Changes

Dorota Michalak

8. Urban Trees and Ecosystem Services: Comparing Environmental and Ecological Economics  Approaches

Zbigniew Szkop

9. Environmental and Ecological Economics of Biodiversity Conservation. A Practitioners’ Perspective

Sviataslau Valasiuk and Jarosław Krogulec

10. European Union Nature Protection Policy from the Perspective of Environmental and Ecological Economics

Agnieszka Markowska

Final reflections

Index

Biography

Małgorzata Burchard-Dziubińska is Associate Professor at the University of Lodz. She deals with ecological economics, the economics of natural resources, sustainable development, eco-management for a low-carbon economy. Among other works, she published Divestment from Coal Sector in Response to Higher Risk Assessment by Insurance Companies: Poland Case Study (2020), Deathworld Encroachments on the Amazon Rainforest (2021), Food Production in the Cities of Tomorrow. The Results of International Questionnaire Surveys (2023), Climate protection. Why is success so difficult?  (2025) (in Polish), and Mongolia Trapped in Abundance of Natural Resources – co-author (2020) (in Polish).

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