ISBN:
0203299671
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9780203299678
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 219 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge / ECPR studies in European political science 34
Series Statement:
Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science 34
Parallel Title:
Print version Liberal democracy and environmentalism
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Environmentalism Political aspects
;
Political ecology
;
Democracy
;
Environmentalism Political aspects
;
Democracy
;
Political ecology
;
Environmentalism Political aspects
;
Environmentalism ; Political aspects
;
Political ecology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography
;
Democracy
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental
Abstract:
The role of environmentalism : from the Silent Spring to the Silent Revolution / Gayil Talshir -- The faces of endism : post-ecologism and the politics of simulation / Ingolfur Blhdorn -- The end of environmentalism (as we know it) / Yoram Levy -- Little green lies : on the redundancy of 'environment' / Marcel Wissenburg -- Democracy and environmentalism : the end of deep ecology? -- not quite / Mike Mills and Fraser King -- The environment versus individual freedom and convenience / Marius de Geus -- Precaution, scientization or deliberation? Prospects for greening and democratizing science / Karin Bckstrand -- The good and green society : ecology, democracy and autonomy : a problem of wishful thinking / Mathew Humphrey -- A precautionary approach / Meira Hanson -- Liberal democracy and the shaping of environmentally enlightened citizens / Graham Smith -- Perspectives and possibilities -- Sustainability and plurality : from the moderate end of the liberal equilibrium to the open end of a situated liberal neutrality / Dorothee Horstktter -- The minimum irreversible harm principle : green inter-generational liberalism / Michael Wallack -- From environmental politics to the politics of the environment : the pacification and normalization of environmentalism? / John Barry.
Description / Table of Contents:
The role of environmentalism : from the Silent Spring to the Silent Revolution / Gayil TalshirThe faces of endism : post-ecologism and the politics of simulation / Ingolfur Blhdorn -- The end of environmentalism (as we know it) / Yoram Levy -- Little green lies : on the redundancy of 'environment' / Marcel Wissenburg -- Democracy and environmentalism : the end of deep ecology? -- not quite / Mike Mills and Fraser King -- The environment versus individual freedom and convenience / Marius de Geus -- Precaution, scientization or deliberation? Prospects for greening and democratizing science / Karin Bckstrand -- The good and green society : ecology, democracy and autonomy : a problem of wishful thinking / Mathew Humphrey -- A precautionary approach / Meira Hanson -- Liberal democracy and the shaping of environmentally enlightened citizens / Graham Smith -- Perspectives and possibilities -- Sustainability and plurality : from the moderate end of the liberal equilibrium to the open end of a situated liberal neutrality / Dorothee Horstktter -- The minimum irreversible harm principle : green inter-generational liberalism / Michael Wallack -- From environmental politics to the politics of the environment : the pacification and normalization of environmentalism? / John Barry.
Note:
Title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 14, 2010). - Includes bibliographical references and index
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Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 14, 2010)
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