ABSTRACT
This article aims to elucidate the interfaces between the field of collective health and policy ecology, evidencing the discussion about the vulnerability, the territory and the social metabolism, through critical analysis of the literature. The political ecology has developed concepts and methodologies that seek to capture the relation between the economy and the socio-ecological conflicts and a new environmental rationality. Thus, its dialogue with the collective health and the environmental health axis enables a theoretical deepening about the models of economic development and socio-environmental conflicts, in addition to reflection about the strategies for decolonization of knowledge, reinventing territories and repossession of nature.
KEYWORDS
Disaster vulnerability; Environmental health; Economic development