Economists and environmental scientists see the world differently – here’s why that matters

By Manuel Suter, Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Economics, Lund University

Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom. Another uses a more comprehensive brain-body approach and tries to understand what’s keeping the nervous system stuck in alarm mode – perhaps stress, fear of symptoms or learned triggers. Because they’re looking at the problem differently, they’ll resort to completely different treatments.

Something similar happens in environmental debates. Experts sometimes argue about which…

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