Overview
- Critiques the dominant geopolitics of “sustainable development”
- Explores how the development of eco-territorial conflicts has affected environmental thinking
- Introduces new concepts for the development of a sustainable world order
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- political ecology
- environmental sociology
- ecological economics
- green production
- environmental rationality
- sustainable development
- eco-territorial conflicts
- Historical Materialism
- Ecological Marxism
- ecological distribution
- ecologies of difference
- environmental rationality
- ethics of otherness
- sustainable world order
- Environmental Geography
About this book
This book offers a conceptual framework for the critical understanding of the present socio-environmental conflicts. It reflects on the evolution of subject and thought, a shift in environmental thinking triggered by the development of eco-territorial conflicts and the social responses given to the environmental question. Bringing together 40 years of the authors writing and research, the book explores the transition from ecological economics and historical materialism to ecological Marxism. It unpacks the forging of political ecology from value theory in political economy, to ecological distribution and ecologies of difference; a transition to an environmental rationality grounded in the ontology of diversity, a politics of difference and an ethics of otherness. This evolution in thinking gives consistency to a theoretical discourse able to respond to the territorial conflicts generated by the radicalization of the environmental question as a key social issue of our times. The bookis a call to respond to the urgent challenge of reversing the tendency towards the entropic death of the planet and to building a sustainable world order.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Ecology
Book Subtitle: Deconstructing Capital and Territorializing Life
Authors: Enrique Leff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63325-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63324-0Published: 24 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63327-1Published: 24 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63325-7Published: 23 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 446
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Geography, general, Development Studies, Environmental Geography, Environment, general