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Ecology, Soils, and the Left

An Ecosocial Approach

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
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Part of the book series: Environmental Politics and Theory (EPT)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Muted Everyday Disasters

    • Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    Pages 1-12

  3. Soils and Their Classification: Ecological Processes and Social Struggles

    • Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    Pages 13-34

  4. Soil Properties and the Political Aspects of Soil Quality

    • Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    Pages 35-58

  5. Soil Degradation: Overview and Critique

    • Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    Pages 59-95

  6. Capitalism-Friendly Explanations of Soil Degradation

    • Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    Pages 97-122

  7. Leftist Alternatives and Failures

    • Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    Pages 123-162

  8. Toward an Eco-Social Approach to Environmental Degradation

    • Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    Pages 163-176

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 177-232
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Soil degradation is real and global, even if the evidence is not so easy to glean. Degradation poses comparable risks to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and nonhuman animal extinctions. Few have noticed soil degradation as the problem it has become, except most indigenous peoples in their struggles for survival.

About the author

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is an Associate Professor of Geography at SUNY New Paltz, where he works, presents, and writes on soil degradation. He received a MSc degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Physical Geography specialising in soils, and a PhD in Geography at Rutgers University (2000), focusing on the impact of social processes on soil use and quality.

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