Political Ecology - Leff, Enrique

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Résumé :
Enrique Leff is Senior Researcher for the Social Research Institute and a professor in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is an environmental theorist working in the fields of Political Ecology, Environmental Epistemology and Philosophy, Ecological Economics and Environmental Education. He was UNEP's Coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (1986-2008) and UNEP's Coordinator for Mexico (2007-2008). ...

Biographie:
Enrique Leff is Senior Researcher for the Social Research Institute and a professor in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is an environmental theorist working in the fields of Political Ecology, Environmental Epistemology and Philosophy, Ecological Economics and Environmental Education. He was UNEP's Coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (1986-2008) and UNEP's Coordinator for Mexico (2007-2008). ...

Sommaire:
1. Unbinding the Sustainability of Life on Earth.- 2. The Social Re-appropriation of Nature.- 3. Space, Place and Time: The Local Construction of an Environmental Rationality.- 4. Environmental Rationality and the End of Natural Dialectic.- 5. Marx's Theory of Value, Technological Change and the Forces of Nature.- 6. Revaluing Nature: : From Exploitation of Peasantry in Capitalism to Emancipation of Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability of Life on Earth.- Chapter 7. Marxism and the Environmental Question: Towards an Environmental Rationality for Sustainability.- Chapter 8. De-growth or Deconstruction of the Economy: Towards a Sustainable World.- 9. Bioeconomics, Negentropic Productivity and Eco-social Sustainability.- 10. Political Ecology: A Latin American Perspective.- 11. Power-Knowledge Relations in the Field of Political Ecology.- 12. The Social Enownment of Nature, the Reinvention of Territories and the Construction of an Environmental Rationality; Carlos Walter Porto Gon?alves and Enrique Leff.