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Political Ecology, Distributional Conflicts, and Economic Incommensurability
Author(s)Martinez-Alier, Juan
AbstractThere is a possibility of transforming environmental values into economic values by focusing on ecological distributional conflicts of political and ecological economics in a Marxian perspective. This political ecology measures the social, spatial, and temporal asymmetries in people’s chosen uses of available natural resources. In these distribution conflicts, the economic incommensurability is measured by comparing alternative decisions on a rational basis, which provides insight to the most economically, ecologically and socially sound policies.
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Pages70-88
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SourceNew Left Review
VolumeNo211
PubDateMay-June1995
ISBN_ISSN0028-6060
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