caa a22 4500 445854987 CHVBK 20180317145425.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-010-9454-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-010-9454-6 Does Environmental Economics Produce Aeroplanes Without Engines? On the Need for an Environmental Social Science [Elektronische Daten] [Henk Folmer, Olof Johansson-Stenman] In this paper we first critically review conventional environmental economics. We conclude that the standard theory offers too narrow a perspective for many real world problems and that many theories are not empirically tested. Consequently, environmental economics is at risk of producing aeroplanes without engines. Next, we welcome and discuss some recent trends, particularly the rapid developments of behavioural and new institutional economics as well as the increased interest in empirical analysis. Yet, we conclude that more ‘logical duels' between competing theories, more interaction between theory and empirics, and more integration between the social sciences are needed to achieve a better understanding of real world environmental problems and the development of adequate policy handles. Finally, we present an outline of steps towards the development of an environmental social science and briefly present the papers that make up this special issue as important building stones of such a discipline. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Economic methodology nationallicence Environmental economics nationallicence Experiments nationallicence Logical duels nationallicence Moral philosophy nationallicence Political science nationallicence Psychology nationallicence Sociology nationallicence Spatial sciences nationallicence Surveys nationallicence Folmer Henk Department of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands aut Johansson-Stenman Olof Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Box 640, 40530, Gothenburg, Sweden aut Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 48/3(2011-03-01), 337-361 0924-6460 48:3<337 2011 48 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9454-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9454-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Folmer Henk Department of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johansson-Stenman Olof Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Box 640, 40530, Gothenburg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 48/3(2011-03-01), 337-361 0924-6460 48:3<337 2011 48 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer