
Historical waves of ecological economics - Inge Røpke
Economics for Rebels
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The Third Wave of Environmental Interest
This is the third wave of environmental interest, where climate is the main issue. And I think we are now in a period of growing interest in the basic ideas of ecological economics because it fits very well with this climate agenda. For instance, Cape Rayworth, donut economics is very useful. It's basically about ecological economics, and it's bringing it out to many more people. So it's also popularizing the ideas. Within the field, I think we also get much more work on climate and also biodiversity, which is a very central issue. Then interestingly, we also have new research topics, such as ecological macroeconomics and research on monetary systems. This is really a result of
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