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 determination of power relations by the state of the environment and their impact on the devastation of the environmental conditions of the existence of an organized human society, also started to take shape the idea of ecological, or environmental democracy. Democracy as a philosophical concept thus acquired a new aspect of meaning, which, however, underwent a dynamic development. The aim of the thesis is to map this development and analyze its relevance for environmental political philosophy.