A Note on Environmental Social Science
By David M. Fields, Within the social sciences there is a growing consensus that human social processes, in a dialectic
The Disconnect Between Economics and Climate Science
By James K. Boyce & Tyler Hansen On October 8, 2018, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Yale economist W
On the Violent Abstraction of Nature
By Adam David Morton It was E.P. Thompson who stated, in The Making of the English Working Class, that: When we encounte
Can We Afford a Stable Climate? Worst-Case Risks vs. Least-Cost Solutions
By Frank Ackerman, originally posted at Dollars&Sense The damages expected from climate change seem to get worse
New Book: Dust Bowls of Empire – Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism
By Hannah Holleman. From Yale University Press: A profound reinterpretation of both the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern
Capitalism and the Expropriation of Nature: The Strategic Discourse of Ecosocialism
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfoWxyZWuKE&w=560&h=315] John Bellamy Foster on nature, c
New Book: The Progress of This Storm – Nature and Society in a Warming World
by Andreas Malm. From Verso: An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other
Call for papers: World Ecology 2018 – Extractivisms, Social Movements and Ontological Formations
World Ecology 2018 – 4th Annual Conference of the World-Ecology Research Network in Helsinki, Finlan
World accumulation & Planetary life, or, why capitalism will not survive until the ‘last tree is cut’
By Jason W. Moore, Why does it seem easier to imagine the end of the world than to see the end of capitalism? Part of the answ
New Book: Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism – Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
By Kohei Saito. From Monthly Review Press: Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world’s most resounding and signifi
New Book: The Good Life Beyond Growth – New Perspectives
Edited by Hartmut Rosa & Christoph Henning. From Routledge: Many countries have experienced a decline of economi
New Book: Creating an Ecological Society – Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams From Monthly Review Press: Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air,
New Book: A Redder Shade of Green – Intersections of Science and Socialism
By Ian Angus. From Monthly Review Press: As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectru
An Eco-Revolutionary Tipping Point? Global Warming, Climate Denials, & the Environmental Proletariat
By Paul Burkett, In the summer of 2016, the acceleration of climate change was once again making headlines. In July, the
New book by Robin Hahnel: Income Distribution & Environmental Sustainability-A Sraffian Approach
From Routledge: Any economics that does not deal forthrightly with economic inequality is no longer suitable for the t
Frank Ackerman on How to Keep US Climate Promises
From Dollars&Sense: In January, Donald Trump will endorse climate denial, renouncing the Clean Power Plan and cl
New Paper by David Barkin: Food Sovereignty – A Strategy for Environmental Justice
By David Barkin. From the abstract: Dominant approaches to rural development have proven unable to confront the struc
The Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University 2017 Leontief Prize
2017 Leontief Prize Winners: James Boyce and Joan Martinez-Alier Awardees to lecture on the theme: “Economics