Ecology Party Ecology Party The Ecology Party was a political party in the United Kingdom. It succeeded the People Party after a name change in 1975. The Ecology Party was the second step for Green politics in Britain and the grassroots of the Green Party of England and Wales. The party won its first representation in 1976, when John Luck took a seat on Rother District Council in East Sussex, and party campaign secretary John Davenport won a parish council seat in Kempsey. Jonathan Tyler was elected as the first chairman of the party in 1976, and Jonathon Porritt became a prominent
Political ecology research has shifted from investigating political influence on the earth's surface to the focus on spatial-ecological influences on politics and power—a scope reminiscent of environmental politics. Much has been drawn from cultural ecology, a form of analysis that showed how culture depends upon, and is influenced by, the material conditions of society (political ecology has largely eclipsed cultural ecology as a form of analysis according to Walker.) As Walker states, "whereas cultural ecology and systems theory emphasize[s] adaptation and homeostasis, political ecology emphasize[s] the role of political economy as a force of maladaptation and instability". Political ecologists often use political