Issue Twenty-seven (7, 3), June, 1996

Table of Contents

 

House Organ 1

Essay

The Lonely Hour of Scarcity

By Andrew Ross 3

Eppur4 Si Muove

False Dichotomies

By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins 27

Thinkers

Regulation, Ecology, Ethics: The Red-Green
Politics of Alain Lipietz
By Kerry Whiteside 31

Marxism and Ecology

On Some Common Misconceptions About Nature and
Marx's Critique of Political Economy

By Paul Burkett 57

Urban Ecology

Entropic Zones: Buildings and Structures
of the Contemporary City

By James Dickinson 81

Ripples In Clio's Pond

Classical Athens and Ecosystemic Collapse

By J. Donald Hughes 97

Environmental Movements

The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Environmentalists: The International Tropical Timber Organization

By Fred P. Gale 103

Nature Prospects

A Green Mythology

By Kate Soper 119

Green Dreams

Wilson Harris: Literary Ecologist of the Americas

By Paul Buhle 125

Brief

Sustainable Development of What?

By John Bellamy Foster 129

 

Teaching Political Ecology

Bioregional Education on the Hudson

By Steve Breyman 133

Book Reviews

Martin O'Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology

By Les Levidow 137

Kate Soper, What is Nature?

By Colin Hay 140

Jim Schwab, Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of
Blue-Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America

By Tim Stroshane 142

Michael E. Zimmerman,Contesting Earth's Future:
Radical Ecology and Postmodernity

By Joseph Boland 144

Michael Hough, Cities and Natural Process

By Liette Gilbert 146

Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum, GET A LIFE! How
to make a good buck, Dance around the dinosaurs, and
Save the world while you're at it

By Brian Milani 148

Sara Berry, No Condition is Permanent: The Social
Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Peter Walker 151

Book Notes 154

 

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