Background Recognizing nature and the environment as sociocultural constructions is
critical to enhancing a transformational ecological change. This involves understanding their …

I have been generally concerned about environmental issues for half a century and with
ecological economics since a coauthored plenary paper at the first International Society for …

The premise of this series is that the current environmental crisis cannot be solved by
technological innovation alone and that the environmental challenges we face today are, at …

In recent times arguments for conservation allying with corporations have been prominent
and not least in the advocacy of 'new conservation'. This has set up a false dichotomy …

It is fashionable to argue that nature and society are obsolete categories. The two, we are
told, can no longer be distinguished from one another; continuing loyalty to the 'binary'of the …

I observed in the previous chapter that, while it is obvious activists care deeply about the
place or nature they are defending, it seems to be assumed that non-human nature has little …

Social ecological economists have been present since the creation of the International
Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and provide the main approach in the European …

The Anthropocene is currently a buzzword. The neologism now circulates far and wide–and
not only in academia, from whence (to little initial fanfare) it originated nineteen years ago …

This article adds to an evolving literature arguing for revised human-animal positions in
social thought. It elaborates on how writings fundamental to the modern human world ought …

Using the principles of John Rawls' theory of justice, this book offers an alternative political
vision, one which describes a mode of governance that will enable communities to …