Between Ostrom and Nordhaus: The research landscape of sustainability economics

摘要: Abstract We survey the emerging research area of sustainability economics through a quantitative full-text analysis peer-reviewed journal publications from 1987 to 2013. To identify relevant contributions, we draw on existing definitions for keyword-based identification strategy: combined focus (a) human-nature relationship, (b) long-term uncertain future, (c) normative orientation towards sustainability, and (d) economic analysis. Our random subsample 343 papers reveals that (i) is rapidly developing area; (ii) while theoretical contributions shaped in earlier years, applied work now constitutes largest share contributions; (iii) landscape can be clustered into eleven clusters. These range participatory governance social-ecological systems associated with Elinor Ostrom questions intertemporal allocation distribution climate William Nordhaus; (iv) broad scope heterogeneous, there relatively little interaction between important clusters; (v) are published more than 100 journals. Ten journals publish half all led by Ecological Economics, 40% appear non-economics journals, underscoring importance interdisciplinary dialogue.