By Martin P. A. Craig

Critically synthesising quite a number disparate literatures and debates, this ebook asks what's at stake in mounting a decisive reaction to the ‘socio-ecological drawback’ - a challenge of humanity’s courting with the remainder of nature that areas social existence as we all know it in jeopardy. Martin Craig proposes that political economists inside and past the sector of political ecology make an integral contribution to the analysis of this quandary and the formula of prescriptions for its answer. In a wide-ranging but concise exposition, he check the fraught dating among capitalist societies and the biosphere of which they seem to be a half, and urges a renewed emphasis on political-economic constitution and procedure while contemplating responses to the trouble. the result's an offer for a serious but inclusive study company – 'ecological political financial system' – during which a large choice of researchers can effortlessly participate. 

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