TY - GEN AU - Martinez-Alier, J. TI - Environmentalism of the poor SN - 9781843764861 U1 - 333.7 PY - 2002/// CY - Cheltenham PB - Edward Elgar N2 - Preface vii 1 Currents of environmentalism 1 2 Ecological economics: 'taking Nature into account' 16 3 Indices of (un)sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism 39 4 Political ecology: the study of ecological distribution conflicts 54 5 Mangroves versus shrimps 79 6 The environmentalism of the poor: gold, oil, forests, rivers, Biopiracy 100 7 Indicators of urban unsustainability as indicators of social Conflict 153 8 Environmental justice in the United States and South Africa 168 9 The state and other actors 195 10 The ecological debt 213 11 On the relations between political ecology and ecological economics 252 Bibliography 273 Index 295 ER -