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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
Print Book, English, ©2002
Edward Elgar Pub., Northhampton, MA, ©2002
xi, 312 pages ; 24 cm
9781840649093, 9781843764861, 1840649097, 1843764865
49226189
Currents of environmentalism
Ecological economics : 'taking nature into account'
Indices of (un)sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism
Political ecology : the study of ecological distribution conflicts
Mavgroves versus shrimps
The environmentalism of the poor : gold, oil, forests, rivers, biopiracy
Indicators of urban unsustainability as indicators of social conflict
Environmental justice in the United States and South Africa
The state and other actors
The ecological debt
On the relations between political ecology and ecological economics