Journal Title：Ecological Economics

The journal is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature's household" (ecosystems) and "humanity's household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership.

Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.

该杂志关注扩展和整合对“自然之家”（生态系统）和“人类之家”（经济）之间的界面和相互作用的理解。生态经济学是一个跨学科领域，由一系列与以促进人类福祉、可持续性和正义的方式管理经济活动相关的具体问题或挑战定义。因此，该期刊强调利用和整合生态科学、经济学以及对价值观、行为、文化实践、制度结构和社会动态的分析等要素的批判性工作。该杂志在精神上和方法论上是开放的，借鉴了各种知识传统提供的见解，并吸引了不同的读者群。

涵盖的具体研究领域包括：自然资源估值、可持续农业和发展、生态综合技术、从地方到区域再到全球的综合生态经济模型、热力学对经济和生态的影响、可再生资源管理和保护, 对当前经济和生态范式的基本假设以及替代假设的影响、基因工程生物的经济和生态后果、基因库库存和管理、评估自然财富的替代原则、将自然资源和环境服务整合到国民收入和财富账户、实施有效环境政策的方法、经济-生态冲突或和谐的案例研究等。这一领域的新问题正在迅速出现，并将在生态经济学中找到一个现成的论坛。