ABSTRACT
Social ecological economists have been present since the creation of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and provide the main approach in the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) (Røpke, 2005; Spash, 1999). They recognise the importance of political economy, social ecology and the role of institutions for understanding the economic system and its interactions with Nature. They practice serious interdisciplinary knowledge integration across social and natural sciences (Spash, 2012a). They realise the need for a radical social ecological transformation based on their (natural and social) scientific knowledge. Social ecological economics is for many the core understanding of ecological economics (Spash, 2013; Spash and Ryan, 2012).
