2017-06-27 - Valéry Rasplus - Revue du MAUSS
The realisation that traditional disciplines, such as economics and biology, were failing to provide effective scientific solutions to environmental problems gave rise to the development of ecological economics at the end of the 1980s. The aim of this book is to describe how this field of science was created and became institutionalized, as well as the methods and theoretical and political propositions that were, or still are, subject to debate.
Ali Douai is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. His teaching and research focus on the foundations of ecological socio-economics and the analysis of market building processes as tools for the management of biodiversity.
Gaël Plumecocq is an economics researcher at the Institut national de la recherche agronomique (National agronomic research institute) (Toulouse). Her research focuses on the relationship between the agriculture and food industries and the environment, with a view towards sustainable land development.