SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management Department, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Jan;1185:1-10. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05161.x.
The Ecological Economics journal is a primary source for inquiry on ecological economics and sustainability. To explore the scholarly pursuit of ecological economics, we conducted a content analysis of 200 randomly sampled research, survey, and methodological articles published in Ecological Economics during the 15-year period of 1989-2004. Results of the analysis were used to investigate facets of transdisciplinarity within the journal. A robust qualitative approach was used to gather and examine data to identify themes representing substantive content found within the span of sampled journal papers. The extent to which each theme was represented was counted as well as additional data, such as author discipline, year published, etc. Four main categories were revealed: (1) foundations (self-reflexive themes stemming from direct discussions about ecological economics); (2) human systems, represented by the themes of values, social indicators of well-being, intergenerational distribution, and equity; (3) biophysical systems, including themes, such as carrying capacity and scarcity, energy, and resource use, relating directly to the biophysical aspects of systems; and (4) policy and management encompassing themes of development, growth, trade, accounting, and valuation, as well as institutional structures and management. The results provide empirical evidence for discussing the future direction of ecological economic efforts.
《生态经济学杂志》是探究生态经济学和可持续性发展的主要资源。为了探索生态经济学的学术追求，我们对 1989 年至 2004 年的 15 年间在《生态经济学杂志》上发表的 200 篇随机抽样的研究、调查和方法学文章进行了内容分析。分析结果用于调查该期刊内跨学科研究的各个方面。我们采用了强有力的定性方法来收集和检查数据，以确定在抽样期刊论文范围内发现的具有实质性内容的主题。我们对每个主题的代表性进行了计数，并记录了其他数据，如作者学科、发表年份等。结果揭示了四个主要类别：（1）基础（源自对生态经济学的直接讨论的自我反思主题）；（2）人类系统，由价值观、社会福利指标、代际分配和公平等主题代表；（3）生物物理系统，包括承载能力和稀缺性、能源和资源利用等主题，这些主题直接与系统的生物物理方面相关；（4）政策和管理，包括发展、增长、贸易、核算和估值以及制度结构和管理等主题。研究结果为讨论生态经济努力的未来方向提供了经验证据。
