Abstract
The papers in this special Issue of Studies in Political Economy are, with one exception, drawn from presentations made at the SPE annual conference in February 2002. The conference objective was to provide a forum for public and scholarly engagement with the questions of political ecology and political economy. The papers provided a number of critical perspectives on the themes of sustainable development and the politics of environmental degradation, and several innovative papers suggested new ways of rethinking conventional assumptions of environment and governance. The topic was especially germane for 2002 given the plans then underway for the Rio+10UN summit on Sustainable Development subsequently held in Johannesburg in August 2002. Given the minimal results of this meeting, the critiques and reformulations of the papers included in this issue seem even more important now.
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