Save the environment.

Summary The environmental concern born of the observation of the damaging pressure exerted by economic activities on the biosphere has led to the multiplication of initiatives and regulations intended to curb destruction. Economic theory has responded to the fact that economic actors interact with nature in an economic manner (by taking resources, transforming environments, discharging waste, etc.) with efforts to understand these interactions and to develop economic policy instruments to regulate them. This multidisciplinary book (economics, sociology, history, social studies of science and technology) explores the multiple facets of these economicizations of the environment (through its exploitation, through economic theory, and through environmental policies) based on historical and contemporary analyses that show the issues, limits, and opportunities. The balance sheet remains contrasted, as these different ways of economizing the environment can tend to neglect the biogeochemical specificities of nature to the point of not really taking the environment into account.