Green Production
Toward an Environmental Rationality
Enrique Leff(Author)
Guilford Publications (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 1995
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-0-89862-411-3 (ISBN)
Description
Enrique Leff provides a Marxist approach to environment and development that focuses on the process of production, and its implications of the environmental crisis on human values. To truly achieve a more rational and integrated use of our natural resources, he convincingly argues for a reorientation of science and technology towards the objectives of sustainable development, the decentralization of production, and the participatory management of natural resources.
Elaborating the links between critical political economy of the environment and political ecology, the author offers an alternative paradigm--based on a concept of ecotechnological rationality--for understanding and effectively integrating ecological productivity, technological innovation, and cultural organization in natural resource management. In addition, he provides an illuminating critique of traditional economic approaches to environmental development planning.
Elaborating the links between critical political economy of the environment and political ecology, the author offers an alternative paradigm--based on a concept of ecotechnological rationality--for understanding and effectively integrating ecological productivity, technological innovation, and cultural organization in natural resource management. In addition, he provides an illuminating critique of traditional economic approaches to environmental development planning.
Reviews / Votes
'Introduces Enrique Leff's brilliant and original work to a larger English-speaking audience ... A magisterial synthesis of Marxism, ecology and cultural theory, Leff's book ... proposes a compelling vision for an alternative ecotechnological rationality.' - Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA"...a pioneering piece of eco-Marxism with special applicability to the Third World...." - Contemporary Sociology
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-89862-411-3 (9780898624113)
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03/1995
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