In the UK, many low-income communities have seen the withdrawal of `mainstream', high-street-based financial service infrastructure from their local areas since the mid to late 1980s, whilst more costly sub-prime lenders have flourished, often in their place. There has been a developing search...

Mary Mellor explores the potential of money as an agent of socially just and ecologically sustainable development. Through an analysis of theories of money it shows how existing money systems work and how radical reform of the mechanisms of money issue and circulation could be achieved.

This paper will argue that ecofeminist political economy can make a major contribution to green economics. Ecofeminist political economy sees women's work and lives, like the natural world, as being externalised by current economic systems. Through an analysis of the gendering of economic...