| Chapter 1: | Ecological Economics as a Transdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability |
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Chapter 1
Ecological Economics
as a Transdisciplinary
Approach to Sustainability
That man's physical and spiritual life is linked to nature means simply that nature is linked to itself, for man is part of nature.
—Karl Marx, The Economic and Philosophic
Manuscripts of 1844
Chapters 11 and 2 focus on an articulation of the basic conceptual and theoretical framework of ecological economics from an international and a Chinese perspective, respectively. The transdisciplinary analytical framework of this newly emerging field of sustainability research will be employed for the study of Chinese ecological agriculture in the following chapters. This chapter attempts to provide a general overview of the work conducted under the broad rubric of ecological economics, which advocates a common framework that encourages productive dialogue