评西方生态经济学研究

Review on Ecological Economics in Western Countries

本文拟就西方生态经济学的产生动机、背景、有关概念和方法做一简介。在考察生态经济学产生背景的基础上，首先介绍生态经济学的基础，涉及到生态经济系统协同演化问题及这些问题为什么不能用标准的自然资源利用模型或生态系统动态模型加以解释的原因。其次介绍生态经济学的研究特性和对生物多样性的认识。最后讨论生态经济学的政策含义。

This paper offers a brief introduction of the motivation, background, relevant concepts and methods of ecological economics in western countries By putting the emergence of ecological economics in historical context, the author firstly introduces the foundations of ecological economics This covers questions about the joint evolution of ecological and economic systems, and the reasons why these questions were not addressed either by standard models of natural resource utilisation or by standard models of ecosystem dynamics the if considers the features of ecological economics research and its point of view on biodiversity Finally, some policy implications of ecological econom- ics are discuised