La crise écologique exige une révolution de l’économie des services. « La Terre n’est pas un don de nos parents. Ce sont nos enfants qui nous la prêtent » (maxime amérindienne) 1L’économie des services, telle qu’elle existe, est, à de rares exceptions près, a-écologique et a-sociale. Elle s’est peu intéressée – sauf dans le cas des transports – aux relations entre les services et l’environnement, et guère plus à la question des inégalités dans et par les services (sauf dans certaines analyses des services publics ou du dualisme de l’emploi tertiaire).
Cette situation va se modifier, et probablement de façon rapide, dans les prochaines années. Mais la révolution écologique et sociale de l’économie des services se heurte à divers obstacles, dont certains ne sont pas spécifiques aux services. J’en mentionne quatre, sans chercher à être exhaustif. 2Obstacle 1 : une prise de conscience freinée, pour de multiples raisons 1 ZenithOptimedia : (...) 8Obstacle 4 : remettre les externalités à l’intérieur Sources. 1.1. 1.2.
Ecological Economics : Basic Concepts. Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Introduction to Ecological Economics. Ecological Economics Webinar. Robert Ayres (scientist) Robert Underwood Ayres (born June 29, 1932) is an American-born physicist and economist. His career has focused on the application of physical ideas, especially the laws of thermodynamics, to economics; a long-standing pioneering interest in material flows and transformations (industrial ecology or industrial metabolism) - a concept which he originated.[2] His most recent work challenges the widely held economic theory of growth.
Trained as a physicist at the University of Chicago, University of Maryland, and King's College London (PhD in Mathematical Physics), Ayres has dedicated his entire professional life to advancing the environment, technology and resource end of the sustainability agenda. His major research interests include technological change, environmental economics, "industrial metabolism" and "eco-restructuring". He has worked at the Hudson Institute (1962–67), Resources for the Future Inc (1968) and International Research and Technology Corp (1969–76). Robert Ayres - Vitae p1. Trained as a physicist at the University of Chicago, University of Maryland, and Kings College at the University of London (PhD in Mathematical Physics), Robert Ayres has dedicated his entire professional life to advancing the environment, technology and resource end of the sustainability agenda.
His major research interests include technological change, environmental economics, and such jawbreakers as "industrial metabolism" and "eco-restructuring". At various times he has acted as a consultant to the White House, National Goals Commission, Office of Management and Budget, Transport Canada, OECD, Statistics Canada, and numerous UN agencies. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ventana Corporation (Venture Capital Fund), and set up and ran for several years the innovative program on Technology, Economy and Society at IIASA, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxemburg Austria. Back to top. LectureE Ecological Economics_0 - "Google Documents"