Antecedentes y evolución ecológica

Abstract

Because of the lack of answers on behalf of the neo-classical economy to the ever increasing environmental problems as a result of the economical activities, a new vision has started to develop: the ecological economy. In this new focus, the bases for a new way of seeing the relationship between the natural world and the economical world take root.This article mainly aims at undertaking an analytical review of the main ideas expounded within the ecological economy; and at establishing a referent about the new debate between the ecological economy and the neo-classical economy. As a core conclusion,the article explains that it is necessary to redirect the economy-environment relationship towards a new examination of two core aspects of the environmental economy: 1) the value judgment through which the environmental problems should be analyzed with the criteria of the well being; and 2) the conception that it can initiate with the analysis of individual problems in the search for criteria that would orientate the economical administration of natural resources.