Editorial. Ecology and poverty : cry of the earth, cry of the poor / Leonardo Boff and Virgil Elizondo – I. Some problems. The present socio-economic system as a cause of ecological imbalance and poverty / Julio de Santa Ana – Ecological consciousness in Amazonia: the indigenous experience / Berta G. Ribeiro – Sacred earth: Mesoamerican perspectives / Sylvia Marcos – II. A theological perspective. The cry of the earth? Biblical perspectives on ecology and violence / Christoph Uelinger – Spirituality of the earth / Julia Esquivel Vela squez – Liberation theology and ecology: alternative confrontation or complementarity? / Leonardo Boff – Some premises for an eco-social theology of liberation / Jose ramos Regidor – III. New horizons. Towards a new paradigm of production : from an economy of unlimited growth towards one of human sufficiency / Bastiaan Wielenga – Ecology from the viewpoint of the poor / Eduardo Gudynas – Principles for a socio-environmental ethic : the relationship between Earth and life / Charles Richard Hensman – The theological debate on ecology / Rosino Gibellini – Special column.