The second generation of ecological economics: How far has the apple fallen from the tree?

This paper examines the discourse produced in the academic journal Ecological Economics from its inception in 1989, and compares this discourse with that of the field of environmental economics. I used methods for discourse analysis (Alceste and Iramuteq) on 6308 abstracts of papers published in fou...

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Published in:Ecological economics 2014-11, Vol.107, p.457-468
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Monetary economics
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