Ecological economics envisions problem-solving collaborative efforts characterized by disciplinary diversity and participants within and outside of research professions. Pursuit of its ambitious vision has led to ambiguity in terms of ecological economics' paradigms, methodology, and subject matter. There remains a need for comprehensive methodologies and for nuanced discussions of methodological pluralism and action-oriented research practice. We present a pragmatist ecological economics as one foundation to practicing ecological economics. We synthesize the basic normative assumptions of a pragmatist philosophy with the foundational goals of ecological economics. This synthesis provides potential researchers with foundations including a basic scientific worldview, a topical focus on a quasi-distinct portion of human-nature relationships, two broad burning questions, a basic menu of methods, and action-oriented goals for applying ecological economics in practice. Methodological pluralism is embraced, and conflicting normative assumptions are reconciled with the recognition that singular inquiries provide incomplete or partial knowledge, not competing knowledge. By integrating into applied contexts, in large part by building relationships with practitioners and the diverse publics, we suggest that there is opportunity to co-develop processes and forums that at least can help us understand one another better on our collective effort toward sustainability.

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实用主义生态经济学 - 可操作知识的规范基础和框架


生态经济学设想了以学科多样性和研究专业内外参与者为特征的解决问题的协作努力。追求其雄心勃勃的愿景导致了生态经济学的范式、方法和主题方面的模糊性。仍然需要全面的方法论，并对方法论多元化和以行动为导向的研究实践进行细致入微的讨论。我们提出实用主义的生态经济学作为实践生态经济学的基础。我们将实用主义哲学的基本规范性假设与生态经济学的基本目标相结合。这种综合为潜在的研究人员提供了基础，包括基本的科学世界观、对人与自然关系中准不同部分的专题关注、两个广泛的紧迫问题、基本方法菜单以及在实践中应用生态经济学的以行动为导向的目标。方法论的多元主义被接受，相互冲突的规范性假设与承认单一探究提供不完整或部分的知识，而不是竞争性的知识相调和。通过融入应用环境，在很大程度上通过与从业者和不同的公众建立关系，我们建议有机会共同开发流程和论坛，至少可以帮助我们在共同努力实现可持续发展时更好地了解彼此。