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Essay / Ecological economics and environmental economics
1. BackgroundThe environmental problems that the world has suffered over the past 100 years have led professionals from different disciplines to wonder how to solve them. In particular, in the field of economics, it pushed for the creation of two different sub-disciplines: environmental economics and ecological economics. Environmental economics is a subdiscipline within the field of traditional economics that focuses on current environmental issues. This sub-discipline emerged in the 1950s and 1960s after the recognition that the environment needed to be included in the market system while the core of the economy remained the same (Pearce et al., 1993). It takes environmental raw materials as income (i.e. harvest wheat and sell it) without considering ecological limitations (Sullivan, 2012). As a direct subdiscipline of economics, environmental economics strives to create a balance between people's needs for products and services while maintaining the need to protect natural resources and the environment. Environmental problems have broad social, cultural and political implications. apart from those found in standard economic theories. Environmental economists consider these complex and interrelated issues when creating economic policies focused not only on basic supply and demand, but also on profit maximization. Ecological economics emerged in the 1980s and recognizes that the environment is what supports the economy Figure 1 (Costanza et al., 1997). According to them, environmental raw materials are considered a depletion of capital within the ecosystem (i.e.: once wheat has been harvested, it cannot be harvested again and its services are lost) and identified as the paper environment. ....an insight into the models.- Need for information on other areas.- Irregularity in spatial interactions. Spatial econometrics has already been used for more than 30 years, increasing its applications year by year ( both in terms of quantity and type of problems). applied to) at a rapid pace has been used in almost all economic areas (agricultural, development, environment, etc.). This expansion of its uses has crossed the boundaries of economic analyses, allowing its use by politicians for the implementation and creation of new policies. and regulations related to (but not limited to): city zoning, land use, transportation, environmental health, etc. Along with its growing use, this type of analysis is perfect for new GIS technologies, allowing natural resource managers, or other spatial dependency work, to easily implement this type of analysis.