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Martin P. A. Craig - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On ‘the Other Crisis’: Diagnosing the Socio-Ecological Crisis
The Coming Crisis, 2017Co-Authors: Martin P. A. CraigAbstract:A ‘socio-Ecological’ Crisis is unfolding between our societies and the ecologies of which they are a part. Exploring some of its key dimensions reveals that its precise nature is not as clear as is sometimes assumed. A little acknowledged, but extremely significant, debate over the ‘diagnosis’ of the Crisis exists, which in turn reflects a long-running dispute between ‘under-consumptionist’ and ‘over-accumulationist’ currents in Crisis theory. The debate points us to the very different and incompatible ‘prescriptions’ that the two currents offer for how to avoid the worst impacts of the Crisis. Diagnosing the socio-Ecological Crisis is therefore central to understanding ‘the coming Crisis’.
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prescribing decisive responses to socio Ecological Crisis
2017Co-Authors: Martin P. A. CraigAbstract:In this chapter, my focus moves from diagnosis to prescription. I ask how a decisive response to socio-Ecological Crisis can be accomplished amid the structural diversity of contemporary capitalism. I emphasise political-economic structure and strategy, drawing attention to how the margin of manoeuvre for a decisive response is situated amid the neoliberalising and financialising tendencies that characterise contemporary capitalist accumulation strategies. Contrary to the prevailing embrace of market mechanisms of environmental governance, I argue that a more thorough-going form of political-economic change is necessary if contemporary capitalist societies are to be rendered less Ecologically impactful and set upon a path to post-growth political-economic models. I explore the possibilities of ‘green industrial strategy’ as a means to this end.
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Diagnosing Socio-Ecological Crisis
Ecological Political Economy and the Socio-Ecological Crisis, 2016Co-Authors: Martin P. A. CraigAbstract:This chapter considers how the socio-Ecological Crisis confronting contemporary societies might be diagnosed. I address the ways in which these predominantly capitalist societies may be failing to secure their Ecological conditions of possibility, drawing upon the two conceptualisations of socio-Ecological Crisis outlined in the previous chapter (Crisis as metabolic rift, and Crisis as exhausted socio-Ecological relations) in order to do so. I conclude that in either case a decisive response to socio-Ecological Crisis necessarily implies moving to a post-growth form of political economy, but that the pace at which transition happens depends upon which of these two conceptualisations forms a better diagnosis of the Crisis confronting contemporary societies.
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Two Conceptualisations of Socio-Ecological Crisis
Ecological Political Economy and the Socio-Ecological Crisis, 2016Co-Authors: Martin P. A. CraigAbstract:In this chapter I turn to the conceptualisation of socio-Ecological Crisis. Different forms of social organisations have different Ecological ‘conditions of possibility’. Socio-Ecological Crisis is a scenario in which these conditions of possibility can no longer be secured. To capture this in greater detail, I introduce two overlapping conceptualisations: socio-Ecological Crisis as ‘metabolic rift’ and socio-Ecological Crisis as the exhaustion of broader ‘socio-Ecological relations’. I conclude that the second conceptualisation holds purchase on a broader range of issues that the first misses, describing a more intractable form of Crisis with more expansive implications for the fashioning of a decisive response. Consequently, the question of which of these two conceptualisations best describes the socio-Ecological Crisis that is confronting contemporary societies is of great importance.
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Introduction: Ecological Political Economy and Socio-Ecological Crisis
Ecological Political Economy and the Socio-Ecological Crisis, 2016Co-Authors: Martin P. A. CraigAbstract:This chapter introduces the enterprise of Ecological political economy, locating it within the broader fields of political economy and political ecology. In it, I begin to unpack the concept of ‘socio-Ecological Crisis’, drawing particular attention to the medical roots of the term ‘Crisis’: a moment in which a ‘decisive response’ marks the difference between death or recovery. After considering what it means to speak of socio-Ecological Crisis in these terms, I summarise the broader aims and structure of the book.
Michael P Mueller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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educational reflections on the Ecological Crisis ecojustice environmentalism and sustainability
Science Education, 2009Co-Authors: Michael P MuellerAbstract:There is a tendency by scholars arguing for a more just and sustainable future to position the “Ecological Crisis” as a fundamental reason for major educational reforms. Relying on Crisis-talk to fuel social and environmental justice and environmentalism reinforces the thinking of the past, which inadvertently perpetuates the acceptance of present cultural attitudes which frame our relationships with others and the natural world. To evaluate previous cultural thinking and associated traditions of Euro-West society, Chet Bowers asserts that we ought to analyze how assumptions are carried forward as metaphors, which are associated with attitudes towards science, technology, and nature. This pedagogy is called ecojustice education and serves to conserve and sustain cultural diversity and the biodiversity of Earth’s ecosystems, which are threatened and vulnerable. But, also carried forward in the language of ecojustice philosophy (and other Ecological works) is a presumption that feeds into scientifically proving that a Crisis exists, which is associated with organizing schools around an implicit shock doctrine of fear and urgency. This paper explores these assumptions and others associated with a supposition of Ecological Crisis. The Ecological Crisis has the potential to marginalize many diverse people who are needed during these times of increasing Ecological awareness and uncertainties. Situating education (and the world) in the frenzy associated with Crisis, versus the assertion that schools should increase awareness around the belief that a more sustainable lifestyle is beneficial for the individual, the community and the environment is a worthwhile debate and is rich with respect to research opportunities in education.
Zhang Xiao-qin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ecological Politics:the Ultimate Way to Solve the Ecological Crisis
Journal of Nanjing Forestry University, 2004Co-Authors: Zhang Xiao-qinAbstract:At present,global environmental problems and Ecological Crisis have become more and more serious,which is the fundamental reason for the spring-up of Ecological political movement in the whole world.Ecological political movement,participation of green party and the increasing power of international environmental organizations have formed the foundation for the development of Ecological politics.Ecological politics becomes an important measure and ultimate way to solve the current global environmental problems and Ecological Crisis,and to promote the coordination and consistent development of politics,economy,sociology,culture and Ecological environment.It must be a new trend and the choice of politics development in future.
Mikhail Borisovich Konashev - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ecological Crisis, “Market” Economy and Evolutionary Theory
International Journal of Energy and Environmental Science, 2019Co-Authors: Mikhail Borisovich KonashevAbstract:The interrelation of Ecological Crisis and a “market” economy based on a “market” way of production is considered in the article. It is supposed that the Ecological Crisis in the principle can’t be solved by means of this way of production. The “market” way of production consists that all things and even processes involved in production and in economy are, or turn into goods. The biological phenomena whether it is populations, species, Ecological niches, biocenoses, biosphere are not and could not be goods. Transition to a new post-market that is post-economic way of production is necessary for overcoming Ecological Crisis. Ways and means of such transition are analyzed on the basis of the evolutionary theory. The principal conclusion is that the transformation of the theory and practice of “market” economy into the theory and practice of human economy is especially important because only through such transformation the problem of alienation of man can be resolved properly and sufficiently. In the course of this process man also transforms himself of capitalist economical or “market” man and of pre-human being into true real human being. Thus the alienation is eliminated at all and forever. Under condition of really public nature of work and its products in the form of productions and production infrastructure, man owing to public, joint, and universal in essence, a cumulative work, is released for a universal free activity. Then each man can really participate in government. He acts as the thinking person and as the material subject of production on the whole state and on the whole reproduction of the humankind. Thus, each man in his cogitative and material activity unites and coincides with all other people, with the mankind, and, thereby, creates himself to the genuine, versatile and universal person, to Homo sapiens et humanus.
Meng Guang-yuan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Urban Ecological Crisis and its Strategy Research
Journal of Liuzhou Teachers College, 2010Co-Authors: Meng Guang-yuanAbstract:The fast development of urbanization and the lag of Ecological development lead to the urban Ecological Crisis day by day.The paper discusses the major causes that led to the urban Ecological Crisis such as the urban Ecological greening Crisis,Ecological environment pollution,the destruction against Ecological environment and Ecological invasion.And the paper puts forward some countermeasures such as urban self-rescue and Ecological aid etc.
