GEOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY, DEMOCRACY

Critical geography must go beyond the spaces of power to political eco logy. Human activity is necessarily ecological, and so too are politic s and democracy. Thus, the regulation of environmental contradictions raises fundamental issues of democratic politics and principles of soc ial justice. The answers to environmental crises are not to be found i n the state or the market, the two leviathans, but in the ability of h umans to govern themselves democratically and justly in relation to th e earth. Because landscape is the sedimented history of human transfor mations of nature, love of landscapes and their Otherness is a testing ground for a moral and democratic relation to nature.