Conceptions of ecological economics: its Relationship with Mainstream and

the purpose of this paper is to offer some considerations for a reflection about nature-society relationships, with a view to increasing the array of available theories for socio-environmental discussions in Brazil, and the world as well. In this sense, it is as much a quick review as a critical evaluation of traditional economic thinking in the face of the environmental dimension of the economic process (the task of the second and third sections of the paper