What is it about?
Rather than being subjected to the limits of state recognition communities are organizing themselves as part of the natural environments in which they live to forge post-capitalist societies, assuring the well-being of all of their members while also caring for their territories
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Why is it important?
This essay offeres an alternative paradigm to the formal strictures of ecological economics that is firmly grounded in the operations of the market and state policies to address environmental problems.
Perspectives
This approach is "radical" in that it addresses solutions to social and ecological issues from the perspective of the communities, rejecting the idea that the State is the principal actor capable of offering solutions to the heightening crises facing society.
Dr David Barkin
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
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This page is a summary of: Radical ecological economics: A paradigm from the global south, Ecological Economics, June 2026, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108939.
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