As far as I can assess, all researchers who
somehow identify themselves with ecological economics
still share the core beliefs that are outlined in
Section 3. This implies a shared interest in coping
with the serious global environmental situation and
the related distributional problems. However, the
perspectives regarding how academics in practice
contribute to the much-needed global change differ
at a basic level. Some (mainly economists) see
ecological economics as a contribution towards
changing the discipline of economics in a radical
way: ecological economics is beconomics done
properly (is Mick Common’s expression, personal
communication) based on the acknowledgement of
the embeddedness of the economy in nature and
society. This implies a clash with the dominant
paradigm of neoclassical economics, which is seen
as basically blind with regard to both nature and
society.