The Civil Animal

Tag: political ecology

  • Ecocene Politics

    Ecocene Politics

    It has been a while since my last post. The reason for this is very simple: I have focused all of my writing energy on two books that had been long in the making, and that have now been published: Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction, and Ecocene Politics. Both are also available…

  • Social and Ecological Justice: on a conflicted relationship

    Current events keep confirming my conviction: the 21st century will be the ecological one, no matter what actually happens to the environment. Just like the 20th century was the century of wars even if you happened to live in a place that saw none, so will this century be defined by ecology, inasmuch as ecological matters will…

  • Trial of Fire

    Trial of Fire

    In mid-April I travelled to Western Iberia to visit the Faia Brava nature reserve (Portugal) and meet some of the people responsible for it. The name means ‘wild cliff’ in the Portuguese spoken in this remote, achingly beautiful area. The organisation managing the area, the Transhumance and Nature Foundation (ATN), was started in 2000 by…

  • Participating in Conservation

    The idea of participation is steadily gaining ground in conservation. But what does it mean to participate, and in what exactly can (or should) one participate? These are the questions I want to reflect on in this post. I use conservation here in its widest possible sense. For example, the Bronx River Alliance has been…