I develop a quantitative measure of a manager's responsibility for a regime shift in a managed ecosystem with stochastic dynamics. I build on the well-established concept of responsibility, which I operationalize in a simple generic model. Causal responsibility is the degree of causation of an...

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...

Strong sustainability, according to the common definition, requires that different natural and economic capital stocks be maintained as physical quantities separately. Yet, in a world of uncertainty this cannot be guaranteed. To therefore define strong sustainability under uncertainty in an...