Synopsis The book introduces two basic approaches for understanding governances issues: political ecology and political economy. The author’s view is the ecology approach is relatively new and untested field of inquiry, while political economy perspective arises from a massive and systematic flowering of literature and analysis. The book attempts to depict the real picture of environmental problems of great magnitude – destruction of wildlife habitat, extinction of plant and animal species, soil erosion, air and water pollution and toxic substance poisoning. The derivation of ecologism its distinctive qualities, where it originated are given in detailed and analytical way of narration.