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An emergent economics of ecosystem management

Hearnshaw, Edward J. S.
Cullen, Ross
Hughey, Kenneth F. D.
Date
2006-08
Type
Conference Contribution - published
Fields of Research
Abstract
Economics is an evolving and emerging filed of study, so is the management of ecosystems. As such, this paper delineates the co-evolution of economic evaluation that reflects the various recognized ecosystem management approaches of anticipative, adaptive and capacitive ecosystem management. Each management approach is critiqued and from this theoretical analysis an emergent approach for the management of ecosystem is put forward, which accordingly suggests an alternative methodological approach for economic evaluations.