Institute of Philosophy SAS
Topic
The Emergence and Development of the Idea of Environmental Democracy within Political Ecology
PhD. program
Year of admission
2026
Name of the supervisor
doc. Mgr. Richard Sťahel, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach
Annotation
Political ecology as a discipline focused on the research of political, economic, and social relations affecting the environment arose in the 1970s. As part of research into the state of the environment’s role in determining power relations and their impact on the devastation of environmental conditions that support the existence of an organized human society, the idea of ecological, or environmental, democracy also began to take shape. Democracy as a philosophical concept thus acquired a new meaning, which, however, underwent dynamic development. The aim of the thesis is to map this development and analyze its relevance for environmental political philosophy.