Political Ecology/Economy

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 612-625

  McCarthy, James ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti determinism and potential of politics; Defining political ecology's core; Dialectical understandings of environmental "problems"; Field's eclectic and contested nature; Foundational themes in political ecology; Political ecology and alternatives to capitalism; Political ecology as economic geography; Political ecology economy; Uniting political ecology with contemporary economic geography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886860169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch39     Document Type: Chapter

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