Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Currents of environmentalism; 2. Ecological economics: 'taking Nature into account'; 3. Indices of (un)sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism; 4. Political ecology: the study of ecological distribution conflicts; 5. Mangroves versus shrimps; 6. The environmentalism of the poor: gold, oil, forests, rivers, biopiracy; 7. Indicators of urban unsustainability as indicators of social conflict; 8. Environmental justice in the United States and South Africa; 9. The state and other actors; 10. The ecological debt.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This text 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.
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Title
Environmentalism of the poor.
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1840649097
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Economic development-- Environmental aspects.
Environmental economics.
Environmental policy.
Développement économique-- Aspect de l'environnement.