Métodos de valoração ambiental: abordagens críticas na perspectiva da economia ecológica

Abstract

This research aims to present a point of view critical methodological parameters of environmental economic valoration methods, as well as its applicability to the neoclassical treatment of issues related to degradation currently instrumental. expose themselves theoretical approaches of neoclassical environmental economics and its main branches, namely the economics of pollution and natural resource economics. And the prospects of ecological economics, a stream which takes its biophysical-ecological assumptions for the analysis of the dynamics between economic system and environmental system in an effort to overcome reductionism of neoclassical theory analysis based on fundamentals. Given that most studies on the use of energy that currently supports the expansion of the economy characteristics of finite resource of increasing scarcity is necessary. With this formulation methods biophysical analysis of ecosystems that considers all the energy characteristics of the environment.