Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology Volume 1
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Theory in Environmental Sociology
- Part II The Economy and Environmental Sociology
- Part III Culture and Environmental Sociology
- Part IV Politics, Power, State
- Part V Social Justice
- 24 Expanding Critical and Radical Approaches to Environmental Justice
- 25 Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil
- 26 Rural Estrangement: Roadblocks and Roundabouts to Justice
- 27 Environmental Justice and Capitalism
- 28 Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems
- Index
- References
28 - Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems
from Part V - Social Justice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology Volume 1
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Theory in Environmental Sociology
- Part II The Economy and Environmental Sociology
- Part III Culture and Environmental Sociology
- Part IV Politics, Power, State
- Part V Social Justice
- 24 Expanding Critical and Radical Approaches to Environmental Justice
- 25 Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil
- 26 Rural Estrangement: Roadblocks and Roundabouts to Justice
- 27 Environmental Justice and Capitalism
- 28 Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems
- Index
- References
Summary
Environmental Sociology has long questioned the orthodoxy of neoclassical capitalist markets structures portrayed by neoclassical economic theory. These concerns have broadly been echoed in the development of the heterodox economic subfield of ecological economics. Ecological economics seeks to create a theoretical paradigm which recognizes that economic activity is bounded by both natural and social structures. Despite these similarities, ecological economics has broadly struggled in embracing a broad notion of environmental justice, typically centering distributional justice while ignoring the role of power in generating and perpetuation environmental injustice. I argue that ecological economists can gain much from sociological theory, particularly the use of intersectionality, in their discussions of environmental justice. I also suggest that the existence of ecological economics provides a theoretical bridge for sociologists long exiled from the mathematical dogma of neoclassical economics.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology , pp. 470 - 486Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020