TY - GEN A1 - Baumgärtner, Stefan A1 - Becker, Christian A1 - Frank, Karin A1 - Müller, Birgit A1 - Quaas, Martin F. T1 - Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics. The role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research N2 - We develop a comprehensive multi-level approach to ecological economics (CML-approach) which integrates philosophical considerations on the foundations of ecological economics with an adequate operationalization. We argue that the subject matter and aims of ecological economics require a specific combination of inter- and transdisciplinary research, and discuss the epistemological position on which this approach is based. In accordance with this understanding of inter- and transdisciplinarity and the underlying epistemological position, we develop an operationalization which comprises simultaneous analysis on three levels of abstraction: concepts, models and case studies. We explain these levels in detail, and, in particular, deduce our way of generic modeling in this context. Finally, we illustrate the CML-approach and demonstrate its fruitfulness by the example of the sustainable management of semi-arid rangelands. KW - Umweltökonomie KW - Interdisziplinarität KW - Wissenschaftsphilosophie KW - Transdisziplinarität KW - ecological economics KW - interdisciplinarity KW - philosophy of science KW - transdisciplinarity Y1 - 2008 UR - http://pub-data.leuphana.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/543 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:luen4-opus-141459 SN - 1860 - 5508 ER -