Assertion: ecologist's research | /r/HasProperty | sought since the field's inception
Facets:
value: to understand the political dynamics
type: PURPOSE
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Historically, political ecology has focused on phenomena in and affecting the developing world; since the field's inception, "research has sought primarily to understand the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world".