Realism In Green Politics
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Author | : Helmut Wiesenthal |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Germany (West) |
ISBN | : 9780719037016 |
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This study provides a critique of ecological fundamentalism based on the experience of West German Green politics. It proposes structural reforms for achieving sustainable resources in modern societies, and advocates political realism as the best way to reconcile social and ecological objects.
Author | : Kristan Cockerill |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2017-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319528246 |
Download Environmental Realism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to “environmental problems” that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in society. The authors elucidate and interrogate a cultural history of solutionism that typifies expectations that science can, should, and will reduce risk to people and property by containing and controlling biophysical phenomena. Using historical analysis, eco-evolutionary principles, and case studies on floods, radioactive waste, and epidemics, the authors show that perceived solutions to “environmental problems” generate new problems, leading to problem-solution cycles of increasing scope and complexity. The authors encourage readers to challenge the ideology of solutionism by considering the potential of language, social action and new paradigms of sustainability to shape management systems. This book will appeal to scholars in multi- and interdisciplinary fields such as Environment Studies, Environmental Science, Environmental Policy, and Science, Technology, and Society Studies.
Author | : Anatol Lieven |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 0190090189 |
Download Climate Change and the Nation State Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The climate emergency is intensifying, while international responses continue to falter. In Climate Change and the Nation State, Anatol Lieven outlines a revolutionary approach grounded in realist thinking. This involves redefining climate change as an existential threat to nation states - which it is - and mobilizing both national security elites and mass nationalism. He condemns Western militaries for neglecting climate change and instead prioritizing traditional but less serious threats. Lieven reminds us that nationalism is the most important force in motivating people to care about the wellbeing of future generations. The support of nationalism is therefore vital to legitimizing the sacrifices necessary to limit climate change and surviving and the effects of it (some of which are now inevitable). This will require greatly strengthened social and national solidarity across lines of class and race. Throughout, Lieven draws on historical examples to show how nationalism has helped enable past movements to implement progressive social reform. Lieven strongly supports plans for a "Green New Deal" in the USA and Europe. In order to implement and maintain such changes, however, it will be necessary to create dominant national consensuses like those that enabled and sustained the original New Deal and welfare states in Europe. Lieven criticizes sections of the environmentalist left for hindering this by their hostility to national interests, their utopian political naivet , their advancement of divisive cultural agendas, and their commitment to open borders. Radical and timely, Climate Change and the Nation State is an essential contribution to the debate on how to deal with a climatic crisis that if unchecked will threaten the survival of Western democracies and every organized human society.
Author | : M. Paterson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2000-04-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230536778 |
Download Understanding Global Environmental Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Understanding Global Environmental Politics develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. It argues that the major power structures of world politics are deeply problematic in ecological terms, and that they cannot be easily used to resolve major environmental challenges such as global warming. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to such challenges, therefore, the book argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary.
Author | : John Barry |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1999-02-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780761956068 |
Download Rethinking Green Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Winner of the PSA Mackenzie Prize for best politics book of 1999. Rethinking Green Politics offers a wide-ranging overview and critical analysis of the theoretical framework that underpins the values, principles and concerns of contemporary green politics and the appropriate institutional means for realizing green ends.
Author | : Lynn Badia |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-12-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0429766521 |
Download Climate Realism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene. It explores the challenge of representing and conceptualizing climate in the era of climate change. In the Anthropocene when geologic conditions and processes are primarily shaped by human activity, climate indicates not only atmospheric forces but the gamut of human activity that shape these forces. It includes the fuels we use, the lifestyles we cultivate, the industrial infrastructures and supply chains we build, and together these point to the possible futures we may encounter. This book demonstrates how every weather event constitutes the climatic forces that are as much social, cultural, and economic as they are environmental, natural, and physical. By foregrounding this fundamental insight, it intervenes in the well-established political and scientific discourses of climate change by identifying and exploring emergent aesthetic practices and the conceptual project of mediating the various forces embedded in climate. This book is the first to sustain a theoretical and analytical engagement with the category of realism in the context of anthropogenic climate change, to capture climate’s capacity to express embedded histories, and to map the formal strategies of representation that have turned climate into cultural content.
Author | : Robert Schuett |
Publisher | : EUP |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : International relations |
ISBN | : 9781474423281 |
Download The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs. Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges.
Author | : Robert E. Goodin |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745666701 |
Download Green Political Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike. Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in turn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken more seriously than that. This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the green political programme. Goodin shows that green public policy proposals are unified by a single, coherent moral vision - a 'green theory of value' - that is largely independent of the `green theory of agency' dictating green political mechanisms, strategies and tactics on the one hand, and personal lifestyle recommendations on the other. The upshot is that we demand that politicians implement green public policies, and implement them completely, without committing ourselves to the other often more eccentric aspects of green doctrine that threaten to alienate so many potential supporters.
Author | : Harry Verhoeven |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190916680 |
Download Environmental Politics in the Middle East Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about them.
Author | : Andrew Dobson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134803001 |
Download The Politics of Nature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book presents a uniquely comprehensive and balanced survey of current green political ideas. It analyses the ability of these ideas to provide plausible answers to fundamental problems in political theory, concerning justice and democracy, individual rights and freedom, human nature and gender. The authors, who come from a range of different disciplines, explore the relationship between green ideas and other traditions including liberalism, anarchism, feminism and Christianity.