Scientific publications

This introductory chapter which will contain a short history of EE as well as some common definitions. It presents the “Global Ethical Trilemma” as a frame for treating the problematic choices between Justice, Ecological sustainability and Prosperity (efficiency). In other words these are three head aspects of Sustainability: the Social, the Ecological and the Economic one. Earlier reports and texts usually treat only one or maybe two of these dimensions, while leaving the third unnoticed. We believe that a keystone of ecological economics and sustainable development is the understanding of the interconnections of all three dimensions.