The four pillars of ecological economy

Abstract

The consequences of the processes of mass industrialization, of unconstrained resource spending and uncontrolled pollution became apparent. The awareness about the survival of the planet, the humans and the rest of the living world, prescribes that it is time when our species has to re-evaluate the consequences of our reckless actions towards ourselves and nature. New and separate discipline that investigates the phenomena related to ecology and economy is recognized. “Environmental economy” is the economy that should give answers in front of the collision between the economy and the eco-systems, solutions which will bridge the incompatibility between the economic and the ecological notions of “stability”, a prerequisite for sustainability of the eco-system and the economical rules such as “growth as inherent logic of the economic system”.