Socio-environmental conflict is a powerful mechanism that has great potential to push for the paradigm shift that we urgently need, argues Diego Murguía.

Early from the beginning of the ISEE 2010 conference, the Yasuni-ITT initiative was in my priority list among the sessions as it is at the frontier of the sustainability, ecological economics, environmental economics and political ecology debate….

The ISEE 2010 Tuesday sessions by Tim Jackson and Juliet Schor hit on the heart of the economic model (accumulation, growth and consumerism) by proposing innovative visions of how to reform capitalism towards human well-being.Before the talk start…