Brendan Prendiville, David Haigron (eds.), Political Ecology and Environmentalism in Britain

“Political ecology” and “environmentalism” are multifaceted concepts encompassing a range of social, political and economic factors affecting environmental, ecological and sustainable development issues. The expression “political ecology” was, it seems, first used in 1935 by Frank Thone in a Science News article entitled “Nature Rambling: We Fight for Grass” and was revived in the 1970s by American anthropologist Eric Robert Wolf. In 1970s Europe, “political ecology”, along with the evolution...