1. L'avenir de la socioéconomie écologique. Environnement et valeur au-delà du Yalta disciplinaire.
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Renou, Gildas
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CULTURAL pluralism , *SOCIOECONOMICS , *SOCIAL sciences education , *ECOLOGICAL economics , *SOCIAL processes , *CONVERSATION , *ENVIRONMENTALISM - Abstract
In their recent book, economists Ali Douai and Gaël Plumecocq consider the absence of value theory as a major lack, both political and scientific, of current ecological social economics. The author disagrees with this position and explains the reasons why. He suggests to found the interdisciplinary conversation in "ecological social economics" on the absence of any a priori definition of value, to enable researchers to fully take into account the plurality of ways people attribute a value to their environment or to natural entities. In order to illustrate the interest of this methodological twist, the article highlights two complementary approaches: the "conventionalist" stream in sociological economics and the work of Joan Martinez-Alier on the environmentalism of the Poor. They provide precious tools to help researchers study the social processes of valuing nature and the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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