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In this study, it is aimed to review the methods of conceptualizing the relationship between economy and environment of two contemporary economic approaches - Neoclassical Environmental Economics and Ecological Economics. Within the discipline of economics, there is an open debate about environmental problems between the neoclassical environmental economics and the rapidly developing ecological economics school. Also, the environmental economy and the ecological economy share the common aim of understanding the human-economy environment interaction in order to make economies sustainable. To achieve this aim, these two perspectives use different types of analytical frameworks and are opposed to each other on many fundamental theoretical and methodological issues. While environmental economics advances in neoclassical analytical approach, ecological economics seeks solutions to economic problems by adopting 'diversified approaches' that widen the gap between the two economic thought. In this framework, it is tried to be evaluated whether ecological economy represents a different and alternative idea to neoclassical environmental economy. The study emphasizes the divergence between the two perspectives and investigates whether there is complementarity between these two perspectives regarding the relationship between economy and environment.

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