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CHN Launches New Project on Ecological Political Economy

Ideas of Humans and Nature, Humans, Nature, and Democracy: Ecological Political Economy

February 12th, 2010

If nature were understood as a living system with natural limits instead of raw material, how would economic and governance institutions and practices be organized? What would a right relationship between human activities and natural systems be? These are the basic questions posed by a new research project on Ecological Political Economy recently begun by the Center. This project is being done in collaboration with scholars from Yale University and the New School and is co-directed by Bruce Jennings and Peter Brown, CHN Senior Fellow and professor at McGill University. The first meeting of the project research group was held on December 9, 2009 at Yale. Presentations addressed basic shifts in scientific/ontological paradigms, modes of ethical reasoning, and approaches to democratic governance. A project hypothesis is that these shifts of worldview and ethics will be required for building a new political economy based on ecological perspectives. For more information about the project, click here.

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