the introductory chapter by comparing ecological
economics with conventional economics and
conventional ecology, illustrating some general
characteristics of ecological economics, for example
the dynamic systems view and the co-evolutionary
perspective. Identity work includes the exploration
of the roots of field (the similarities with others in
the past), and this was already well under way with
the publications of Martinez-Alier (1990, first
published 1987), Cleveland (1987) and Christensen
(1987), later followed by, e.g., Christensen (2001).