the introductory chapter by comparing ecological
economics with bconventionalQ economics and
bconventionalQ ecology, illustrating some general
characteristics of ecological economics, for example
the dynamic systems view and the co-evolutionary
perspective. dIdentity workT 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).