ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND NATURAL RESOURCES VERSUS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Resumo

This article presents a comparison of the two major approaches related to the study of economics and the environment, namely Environmental and Resource Economics and Ecological Economics. The first one was the incorporation of the field of the Environment into Neoclassical Economics and is associated with a multi-disciplinary approach. The second one, Ecological Economics, adopts an interdisciplinary approach between economics, and fields such as biology, geology, geography, sociology, and environmental science.