理查德·诺加德协同进化的生态经济及生态文明思想研究

The Study of Richard B. Norgaard's Ideology of Coevolutionary Ecological Economics and the Ecological Civilization Envisage

理查德·诺加德是生态经济创始人,他勾勒了一个生态经济的协同进化研究机制。为认识论层次的协同发展提供了一个跨越环境和社会维度的有力逻辑,并形成一个社会生态系统的跨学科研究方法。他确定生态经济协同研究涌现的四个相一致的论题,这涉及:环境退化和周边地区的开发失败;不可持续的生产-消费模式的套牢;人类努力控制不良微生物和这些生物进化之间的恶性循环;利他合作行为和机制的适应性优势。诺加德还设想了一个有关由中国开始的"生态文明"的协同进化解释,诺加德的研究对于我国当前生态文明建设具有重要的方法论启示。

Richard B. Norgaard is the founder of ecological economics who maps a coevolutionary research a-genda for ecological economics. At an epistemological level,coevolution offers a powerful logic for transcending environmental and social determinism and forms a cross-disciplinary approach in the study of socio-ecological systems. He identifies four consistent propositions emerging out of coevolutionary studies in ecological economics, concerning environmental degradation and development failure in peripheral regions,the lock-in of unsustain-able production-consumption patterns,the vicious cycle between human efforts to control undesirable micro-or-ganisms and the evolution of these organisms,and the adaptive advantages of other-regarding,cooperative behav-iors and institutions. Norgaard also conveives of a coevolutionary interpretation of“ecological civilization”initiated in China. Norgaard’s study has an important methodological inspiration on current ecological civilization.