Making Political Ecology.(Book Review)

From: Environment | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Schnepf, Doris | Copyright information

MAKING POLITICAL ECOLOGY

by Roderick P. Neumann; Oxford University Press, London, 2005; 224 pp., $35.00 paper (ISBN 0-340-80939-6)

In Making Political Ecology Roderick Neumann draws a comprehensive arc from the origins of political ecology in 1970s geography and anthropology to current developments in sociopolitical and ecological theories.

This book offers a very good introduction to political ecology for students of politics and geography as well...

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