Opinion by Alix Underwood The Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Annual Meeting concludes today in Baltimore, Maryland. Of the dizzying multitude of topics on the agenda, the most prevalent were wildlife conservation, forest ecology, and climate change. Meeting sessions focused on niche aspects of these topics: threatened wader species on Sonadia Island, the effects of endemic mistletoes on forest-floor invertebrates, and the impacts of warming on interactions between plants and symbiont...| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Literature reviews are usually quite uncontroversial. But this is not the case of “Reviewing studies of degrowth: Are claims matched by data, methods and policy analysis?”, a recent paper by Ivan Savin and Jeroen van den Bergh, two economists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. “The piece sparked a meltdown,” explains Glen Peters, who witnessed the online stir […]| Timothée Parrique
On February 23rd, 2024, the New York-based socialist magazine Jacobin published “4 problems for the degrowth movement,” a short piece written by Daniel Driscoll, a social science researcher at Brown University. Like all the previous Jacobin articles touching on the topic[1], this one is firmly against degrowth. On social media, the article has been intensely bashed. “Pure ideological blinkers” (Julia […]| Timothée Parrique
Call for papers: Submissions for special issue “Work in Ecological Economics,” exploring how employment, time use, sustainability intersect.| The International Society for Ecological Economics
Non-native species introduced mainly via increasing trade of goods and services have huge economic, health, and environmental costs. These ‘biological invasions’ involve the intentional or unintentional transport and release of species beyond their native biogeographical ranges, facilitating their potential spread. Over the last few decades, invasive species have incurred an average cost of at leastContinue reading "Less affluent countries more prone to damage caused by biological invas...| Global Ecology @ Flinders
Applications are now open for the Ecological Economics and Behaviour course at the Leeds International Summer School University of Leeds, United Kingdom, 13-26 July 2025 Two-week course including lectures, seminars, and cultural excursions, worth 10 Leeds credits, equivalent to 5 ECTS. Applications are now open – click here to apply. Prerequisites: This Summer School is […]| The International Society for Ecological Economics
International Society for Ecological Economics announces the ISEE Internship at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.| The International Society for Ecological Economics