What is the materia prima with which it is concerned?
The main area of interest is the investigation and clarification of the interactions that occur at the interface of the socioeconomic and biological systems. They occur when the socioeconomic system in its daily activity impacts the biological system and gives rise to such phenomena as global warming, depletion of the ozone layer and others. It goes without saying that these interactive phenomena that are moreover complex and are of uncertain nature have serious repercussions for the human enterprise.
Economics has not really dealt with the concepts of uncertainty and irreversibility as economists cannot make up their minds that humanity is definitely and irreversibly destroying the foundation of life: killing the goose that lays the golden egg.