Political ecology is a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the complex relationships between society and nature that pays attention to political economy, politics, ecology, and equity. In the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, one of the founders of the field, Piers Blaikie, gave the inaugural lecture for the Cultural and Political Ecology specialty group titled "Should Political Ecology be Useful." He argued that while the field should generate research relevant and useful to society, there are few examples of exactly how to do such work. The Public Political Ecology Lab (PPEL) attempts to fill this very important gap. The goal of the PPEL is to share information on how political ecologists can better communicate our work to the public, and inform policy and practice, as a vehicle for social and environmental change. Communicating the results of political ecology research can produce deeper understandings of environmental issues from..
Also known as: Public Political Ecology Lab