Ecological economics began on the Texas bays during the 1950s
Ecological economics began on the Texas bays during the 1950s
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生态经济学始于 20 世纪 50 年代的德克萨斯海湾
DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.12.018
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
P. Kangas
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作者：
P. Kangas
生态经济学已经发展成为一个活跃的领域，每年举行年会，一份专门讨论该主题的技术期刊和国际专业协会。研究生被正在讨论的令人兴奋的新的跨学科思想所吸引。对许多人来说，这一领域至关重要，因为它带来了合理和可持续的环境政策成为可能的希望。生态经济学的一个主要挑战是发展一个系统，该系统将适当地解释自然和人类社会的价值。虽然大多数生态经济学家在应对这一挑战时都在努力适应传统的经济哲学，但HT Odum开发了一种新的方法，该方法使用能源作为公分母，并基于“捐赠者”价值系统，而不是基于效用的“接收者”系统（Odum，1996）。他的方法意义重大，因为它不使用支付意愿来建立价值，因此不需要为非市场商品和服务弥补市场。它很容易适用于评价环境商品和服务，因为它是评价人类经济中的商品和服务。本说明的目的是追溯奥德姆的会计制度的起源，他的一些早期研究。
Ecological economics has grown to be an active field with annual conferences, a technical journal devoted to the subject and international professional societies. Graduate students are attracted to the field by the exciting new interdisciplinary ideas that are being discussed. For many the field is critical because it raises hope that rational and sustainable environmental policies are possible. One major challenge of ecological economics has been the development of a system that will properly account for values in both nature and human societies. While most ecological economists have struggled to accommodate conventional economic philosophy in working on this challenge, HT Odum developed a novel approach that uses energy as a common denominator and that is based on a “donor” system of value instead of a “receiver” system based on utility (Odum, 1996). His approach is significant because it does not use willingness to pay to establish value and as a result does not require having to make up markets for non-market goods and services. It is easily adapted to valuing environmental goods and services as it is to value goods and services within the human economy. The purpose of this note is to trace the origin of Odum’s accounting system to some of his early research.