Editing Political ecology (section)

==Origins==

In international perspective, the origins of political ecology can be traced through different traditions, including an Anglo-American tradition as well as the Latin American and French ''ecología política'' and ''écologie politique''.<ref>Cederlöf and Loftus, 2024</ref> The English term "political ecology" was first coined by [[Frank Thone]] in an article published in 1935.<ref>"Nature Rambling: We Fight for Grass," ''The Science Newsletter'' 27, 717, Jan. 5: 14.</ref> It has been widely used since then in the context of [[human geography]] and [[human ecology]], but with no systematic definition. Anthropologist [[Eric R. Wolf]] gave it a second life in 1972 in an article entitled "Ownership and Political Ecology", in which he discusses how local rules of ownership and inheritance "mediate between the pressures emanating from the larger society and the exigencies of the local ecosystem", but did not develop the concept further.<ref>Wolf, 1972, p.202.</ref> Other origins include other early works of [[Eric R. Wolf]], [[Michael J. Watts]], [[Susanna Hecht]], and others in the 1970s and 1980s.

The origins of the field in the 1970s and 1980s were a result of the development of [[development geography]] and [[cultural ecology]],<ref>Bryant, 1998, p.80.</ref> particularly the work of [[Piers Blaikie]] on the sociopolitical origins of soil erosion.<ref>Piers Blaikie, 1985</ref> Historically, political ecology has focused on phenomena in and affecting the developing world; since the field's inception, "research has sought primarily to understand the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world".<ref>Bryant, 1998, p.89.</ref>

Scholars in political ecology are drawn from a variety of academic disciplines, including geography, anthropology, development studies, political science, economics, sociology, forestry, and environmental history.