Ecological Political Economy and the Socio-Ecological Crisis

Critically synthesising a range of disparate literatures and debates, this book asks what is at stake in mounting a decisive response to the ‘socio-ecological crisis’ - a crisis of humanity’s relationship with the rest of nature that places social life as

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ECOLOGICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

Martin P.A. Craig

Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy

Series Editors Colin Hay University of Sheffield Department of Politics Sheffield, UK Anthony Payne University of Sheffield Department of Politics Sheffield, UK

Aims of the Series The Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) is an innovation in higher education research and outreach. It brings together leading international researchers in the social sciences, policy makers, journalists and opinion formers to reassess and develop proposals in response to the political and economic issues posed by the current combination of financial crisis, shifting economic power and environmental threat. Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy will serve as a key outlet for SPERI's published work. Each title will summarise and disseminate to an academic and postgraduate student audience, as well as directly to policy-makers and journalists, key policy-oriented research findings designed to further the development of a more sustainable future for the national, regional and world economy following the global financial crisis. It takes a holistic and interdisciplinary view of political economy in which the local, national, regional and global interact at all times and in complex ways. The SPERI research agenda, and hence the focus of the series, seeks to explore the core economic and political questions that require us to develop a new sustainable model of political economy.t at all times and in complex ways. The SPERI research agenda, and hence the focus of the series, seeks to explore the core economic and political questions that require us to develop a new sustainable model of political economy.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14879

Martin P.A. Craig

Ecological Political Economy and the Socio-Ecological Crisis

Martin P.A. Craig SPERI University of Sheffield Sheffield, South Yorkshire United Kingdom

Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy ISBN 978-3-319-40089-1 ISBN 978-3-319-40090-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40090-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956502 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.