The environmentalism of the poor a study of ecological conflicts and valuation /
The Environmentalism of the Poor has the explicit intention of helping to establish two emerging fields of study--political ecology and ecological economics--whilst also investigating the relations between them.
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Northampton, Mass. :
Edward Elgar Pub.,
c2002.
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| Online Access: | https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781840649093.xml |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Currents of environmentalism
- 2. Ecological economics : "taking nature into account"
- 3. Indices of (un) sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism
- 4. Political ecology : the study of ecological distribution conflicts
- 5. Mangroves versus shrimps
- 6. The environmentalism of the poor : gold, oil, forests, rivers, biopiracy
- 7. Indicators of urban unsustainability as indicators of social conflict
- 8. Environmental justice in the United States and South Africa
- 9. The state and other actors
- 10. The ecological debt
- 11. On the relations between political ecology and ecological economics.