Epistemological instruments forecological-economic systems investigation

Epistemological instruments forecological-economic systems investigation

Lyudmyla Zahvoyska, Oksana Pelyukh

The article analyzes methodological constraints of the economic theory main-stream concerning study of ecological-economic systems and post-normal problems in the social and environmental context of the Anthropocene. Ecological-economic systems are considered within the framework of the post-normal scientific paradigm and are interpreted as a unity of ecological and economic subsystems associated with an exchange of matter, energy and information, which are characterized by strong nonlinear interactions of structural elements and their collective (emergent) behavior. Particular attention is paid to the peculiarities of the systems under consideration, such as nonlinearity, stochasticity and generativity, as well as the peculiarities of decision-making process concerning these systems management, such as value pluralism, subjectivity of assessments and judgments, the context of decisions, the relevance of nonacademic knowledge, and the participative nature of the decisions making process itself.Directions of the transformation of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of these systems within the framework of the post-nonmal scientific par-adigm are substantiated for elimination of methodological incorrectness of modern economic applying science theorization on the basis of ecological economics and theory of economic complexity, theory of bounded rationality and theory of economic valuation. Postulating a role of an economic system as a subsystem of the global ecolog-ical system, which ensures and determines all kinds of human activity, and a market equilibrium as one of many possible states of the economic system, the proposed the-oretical and methodological approach to the study of ecological and economic sys-tems offers deeper and more adequate understanding of the investigated processes and phenomena.Application of new instruments for study of ecological economic systems, namely, nexus approach, deliberative methods, simulation (multi-agent and system dynamic modeling), economic valuation methods etc. is argumented. Application of these methods as means for holistic identification and visuali-zation of a problem under consideration based on the local and global contexts of its occurrence, for a combination of analytical methods and subjective preferences, monetary assessments and value judgments in the process of seeking synergies, con-flicts and compromises among stakeholders, as well as for integration of academic and traditional knowledge in the decision-making process on the principles of sus-tainable development is substantiated.

2019

agent-based modeling, and dynamic modeling, ecological-economic systems, post-normal paradigm, research tools, simulation, synergistic systems, value of ecosystem services

10.15421/411916

Наукові праці Лісівничої академії наук України

Ukrainian National Forestry University

Forestry