This final episode is a broad overview of what the future has in store for ecological economics, investigating how it has strayed from its original purpose and intentions as a field, the reasons for this particularly the influence of mainstream economics, and how the first thirty years can serve as a lesson for a better more successful future in ecological economics. 

This episode explores ecosystem service valuation by first defining ecosystem goods and services, looking at its application in Payment for Ecosystem services primarily, and finally examining the various ecosystem service valuation shortcomings and certain possible solutions to these issues. 

This episode looks at economic growth and its alternatives by first introducing how GDP and the growth paradigm have gained such a strong cultural and economic foothold and then investigating the positives and negatives of each economic growth alternative: green growth, degrowth and steady-state. 

This episode explores the history and overarching identity of ecological economics, looking at some of its foundational publications, seeing what different academic disciplines influenced its creation, and finally what social and political contexts created this ecological economics emergence.