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International Journal of Environmental Studies, 1973
There is need for a new direction: a new politics of ecology to solve environmental problems. The older politics of conservation, often sincere but sometimes used as a lever to political success, was concerned with local, piecemeal efforts to preserve enclaves of natural beauty, mainly as tourist attractions.
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There is need for a new direction: a new politics of ecology to solve environmental problems. The older politics of conservation, often sincere but sometimes used as a lever to political success, was concerned with local, piecemeal efforts to preserve enclaves of natural beauty, mainly as tourist attractions.
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2013
Political ecology emerged in the 1980s within the field of geography from cultural ecology and development studies traditions. Initially phrased by Piers Blaikie, an expert in rural development and resource governance, as the multiscale analysis of environmental degradation from a political economy perspective, political ecology rejected neo-Malthusian
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Political ecology emerged in the 1980s within the field of geography from cultural ecology and development studies traditions. Initially phrased by Piers Blaikie, an expert in rural development and resource governance, as the multiscale analysis of environmental degradation from a political economy perspective, political ecology rejected neo-Malthusian
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Political ecology in political geography
Political Geography, 2003The environment remains a central concern for political geographers. Whether in macro-theorization of state conflict centering on resource demand, production, and scarcity, or in micro-case studies focusing on environmental disputes, political geographers have come to increasingly consider non-human actors in political process.
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Political Ecology Revisited: Integration of Politics and Ecology Does Matter
Society & Natural Resources, 2008This essay aims to strengthen our comprehension of the dynamic articulation between political and ecological processes within the contexts of human–environmental interactions. Utilizing the theoretical approach of political ecology, this study emphasizes the importance of recognizing the active role that nature plays in shaping human–environment ...
Sandy Rikoon, Anja Nygren
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Infusing ecology into politics
Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management, 1999Abstract This is a personal account of three occasions in which the author played crucial roles in transferring ecological concepts into political operations in the Great Lakes Basin of North America. These were: phosphorus and the control of eutrophication; introduction of the ecosystem approach to management of water quality into the ...
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Political Ecology and Modern Politics
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2017The increasingly pressing need to politicize ecology depends on our capacity to conduct a critique of modern politics, reexamining its fundamental concepts and its history. This thesis, developed in Bruno Latour’s most recent book,Facing Gaia, raises the question of what kind of critique is best adapted to this end.
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Political ecology and ecological resilience:
Ecological Economics, 2000Abstract The biosphere is increasingly dominated by human action. Consequently, ecology must incorporate human behavior. Political ecology, as long as it includes ecology, is a powerful framework for integrating natural and social dynamics. In this paper I present a resilience-oriented approach to political ecology that integrates system dynamics ...
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Urban Politics as Political Ecology
1975Human ecology is concerned with the study of spatial distributions of social phenomena. Because urban settlements are examples of ecological patterns, urbanism, as an object of inquiry, may be viewed as a subset of human ecology. Ecological explanations of urban patterns, largely formulated by demographers, sociologists, geographers and economists ...
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Progress in Human Geography, 2015
This report provides an update to Peter Walker’s 2005 report that questioned the degree to which political ecologists substantively incorporate ecology in their analyses. Since the publication of this article, a range of scholars have characterized political ecology as unengaged with ecology.
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This report provides an update to Peter Walker’s 2005 report that questioned the degree to which political ecologists substantively incorporate ecology in their analyses. Since the publication of this article, a range of scholars have characterized political ecology as unengaged with ecology.
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