La sociedad mexicana enfrenta tres tipos de retos fundamentales: superar el subdesarrollo economico, disminuir las profundas desigualdades socioeconomicas o, al menos aminorar el deterioro del medioambiente. Se trata, como puede entenderse facilmente, de desafios que desbordan los debates...

Scholars have made great advances in modeling and mapping ecosystem services, and in assigning economic values to these services. This modeling and valuation scholarship is often disconnected from evidence about how actual conservation programs have affected ecosystem services, however. Without...

1. Currents of environmentalism -- 2. Ecological economics : "taking nature into account" -- 3. Indices of (un) sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism -- 4. Political ecology : the study of ecological distribution conflicts -- 5. Mangroves versus shrimps -- 6. The environmentalism of the poor :...