Welcome to the International Society for Ecological Economics
The ISEE is a transdisciplinary partnership of scholars, professionals, and activists from a broad range of backgrounds. Through education, research, policy, and social action, we foster transformation towards an equitable and ecologically sustainable society with respect for the rights of people and nature, biological and cultural diversity. At the heart of this, we recognise that our economy is part of a finite biosphere and needs to respect its ecological limits. ISEE is not-for-profit and member-governed.
Ecological economics exists because a hundred years of disciplinary specialization in scientific inquiry has left us unable to understand or manage the interactions between the human and environmental components of our world. While none would dispute the insights that disciplinary specialization has brought, many now recognize that it has also turned out to be our Achilles heel. In an interconnected evolving world, reductionist science has pushed out the envelope of knowledge in many different directions, but it has left us bereft of ideas as to how to formulate and solve problems that stem from the interactions between humans and the natural world. How is human behavior connected to changes in hydrological, nutrient, or carbon cycles? What are the feedbacks between the social and natural systems, and how do these influence the services we get from ecosystems? Ecological economics as a field attempts to answer questions such as these.
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ISEE Discussion Forum
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2025 ISEE-Degrowth Conference
Creating Collective Futures
The ISEE and the Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics are hosting the “Creating Collective Futures” itinerant school from February 3-8, 2025.
Events
ISEE-Degrowth 2025 Call for Abstracts
ISEE-Degrowth 2025 Call for Abstracts The International Society for Ecological Economics invites submissions for abstracts ...
23rd Swiss Climate Summer School
23rd Swiss Climate Summer School Sustainable pathways to net zero 24-29 August 2025, Ascona Monte Verità, ...
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Honoring Ecological Economics Greats: USSEE Fellows Program
V Congress of the Mesoamerican and Caribbean Society of Ecological Economics and Latin American Meeting of Ecological Economy
Vatican Internship
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Journal
The ISEE Journal
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.