The Politics of the Earth
Environmental Discourses
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 May 2005
- ISBN 9780199277391
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 234x156x15 mm
- Weight 415 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 line drawings 0
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Short description:
The Politics of the Earth provides an excellent and accessible introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. John Dryzek analyzes the various approaches that have dominated environmental issues over the last three decades, and that are likely to be influential in the future. These perspectives range from faith in unlimited economic growth to radical green politics. The history, interplay, and impact of
these perspectives are analyzed and assessed, concluding with a plea for ecological democracy.
Long description:
The Politics of the Earth provides an excellent and accessible introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. John Dryzek analyses the various approaches which have dominated environmental issues over the last three decades, and which are likely to be influential in the future:
Survivalism - based on the contention that the earth has a limited stock of resources and prescribes drastic multidimensional action to prevent global disaster, receiving a reply from Promethans who deny such limits exist.
Environmental Problem Solving - recognises the existence of ecological problems but views them as tractable within the basic framework of industrial society.
Sustainability - defined by imaginative attempts to dissolve the conflicts between environmental and economic values.
Green Radicalism - rejects the basic structure of industrial society and the way the environment is conceptualised and promotes transformation in human consciousness, economics and politics.
John Dryzek provides a lively assessment of these various perspectives, their rise and fall, their interaction and impacts, and their strengths and weaknesses. His analysis of these discourses leads up to a concluding argument for a reinvigorated ecological democracy.
The Politics of the Earth offers a new way of classifying and comparing the main strands of environmental politics. It is a fascinating and essential reading for all students of environmental politics and policy, and for anyone with an interest in environmental issues.
Table of Contents:
Part I Introduction
Making Sense of the Earth's Politics
Part II Global Limits and Their Denial
Looming Tragedy: Survivalism
Growth Forever: The Promethan Response
Part III Solving Environmental Problems
Leave it to the Experts: Administrative Rationalism
Leave it to the People: Democratic Pragmatism
Leave it to the Market: Economic Rationalism
Part IV The Quest for Sustainability
Environmentally Benign Growth: Sustainable Development
Industrial Society and Beyond
Part V Green Radicalism
Save the World Through New Consciousness: Green Romanticism
Save the World Through New Politics
Part VI Conclusion
Ecological Democracy
The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses
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