Event overview
Presentation of a new book on the history of ecological economic thought by Marco Vianna Franco and Antoine Missemer and published by Routledge
Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, the book presented in this seminar provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought.
The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights firmly grounded in historiographical research and of import for addressing current sustainability challenges, not least by means of improving our grasp on how humans and nature can generously coexist in the long term.
The story encompasses views that are bound by the observance of the tenets of the natural sciences, but which differ significantly in terms of the role of energy and materials to cultural development and the normative aspects involving resource distribution, social ideals, and policy-making. Combining the approaches of independent scholarly figures and scientific communities from different historical periods and nationalities, the book brings elements that are still missing in the scarce literature on the history of ecological economic thought and highlights the underlying threads which unite such initiatives.
Marco P Vianna Franco is a Post-doctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria and a Researcher in applied sciences and public policies at Fundação João Pinheiro, Brazil.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Dec 2022 | 5:00pm - 6:45pm |
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