000 01935 a2200145 4500
020 _a9781843764861
082 _a333.7
_bMAR
100 _aMartinez-Alier, J.
245 _aEnvironmentalism of the poor
260 _aCheltenham
_bEdward Elgar
_c2002
300 _axi,312p.
520 _aPreface 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
890 _aIndia
942 _2ddc
999 _c40163
_d40163