The Environmentalism of the Poor has the explicit intention of
helping to establish two emerging fields of study - political
ecology and ecological economics - whilst also investigating the
relations between them. The book analyses several manifestations of
the growing 'environmental justice movement', and also of 'popular
environmentalism' and the 'environmentalism of the poor', which
will be seen in the coming decades as driving forces in the process
to achieve an ecologically sustainable society. The author studies,
in detail, many ecological distribution conflicts in history and at
present, in urban and rural settings, showing how poor people often
favour resource conservation. The environment is thus not so much a
luxury of the rich as a necessity of the poor. It concludes with
the fundamental questions: who has the right to impose a language
of valuation and who has the power to simplify complexity? Joan
Martinez-Alier combines the study of ecological conflicts and the
study of environmental valuation in a totally original approach
that will appeal to a wide cross-section of academics, ecologists
and environmentalists.
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