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  • 28 - Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems

  • from Part V - Social Justice
  • Edited by Katharine Legun, Julie C. Keller, University of Rhode Island, Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, Michael M. Bell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
    Published online:
    05 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 470-486

  • Summary

    Environmental Sociology has long questioned the orthodoxy of neoclassical capitalist markets structures portrayed by neoclassical economic theory. These concerns have broadly been echoed in the development of the heterodox economic subfield of ecological economics. Ecological economics seeks to create a theoretical paradigm which recognizes that economic activity is bounded by both natural and social structures. Despite these similarities, ecological economics has broadly struggled in embracing a broad notion of environmental justice, typically centering distributional justice while ignoring the role of power in generating and perpetuation environmental injustice. I argue that ecological economists can gain much from sociological theory, particularly the use of intersectionality, in their discussions of environmental justice. I also suggest that the existence of ecological economics provides a theoretical bridge for sociologists long exiled from the mathematical dogma of neoclassical economics.