Loss and Return of Ecological View in the Discourse of Political Ecology

Abstract

Ecological and human health conditions are at stake in today's most pressing issue: balancing the needs of the natural world with the requirements of human society. The long-term repercussions of social and environmental changes can be better understood by studying both ecological and political-economic history. Floodplains are a great place to learn how civilisation and nature interact over time in a region. To keep pace with the developments in both technology and society, wetland conditions and social-ecological phenomena are constantly re-engineered. Different land and access regulations simultaneously affect the management and health of wetlands. Among environmental studies, political ecology is a subfield that focuses on social relations and the co-production of the natural environment and human society. Political economy, post-modernism, and agrarian studies are among the sources of conceptual inspiration. This research attempts to evaluate prominent actors (e.g., government agencies and enterprises) and what is assumed in central discourses about environmental issues. The debate over ecology's place and significance in political ecology rage on. Several political ecology initiatives actively deal with biological sciences, whereas others stay within more human scientific sociological theories, where ecology generally pertains to the environment.

Keywords:   discourse; ecological view; loss; political ecology; return