Urban socio-ecological movements and the struggles for justice

A key theme in environmental justice is the work of environmental justice movements. According to Agyeman (2005), EJM’s do not propose a progressive socio-ecological utopia. They are: reactionary defensive demonstrating against injustices Urban political ecology has paid less empirical attention to environmental justice movements and placed more emphasis on questions of intense social struggle (Swyngedouw and [...]

Urban political ecology

Urban political ecology (UPE) is a school of critical urban political-environmental research (Heynen et al. 2006b) which complements the view of Environmental Justice: On the basis of the school of urban political ecology there are three main thinkers:   Click here to read references to some urban political ecology monographs. The main ideas of urban political ecology [...]