The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses
by John S. Dryzek
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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 helps make sense of the diverse developments in environmental politics by analysing the main discourseswhich have dominated the area during 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 show more prescribes drastic, multidimensional action to prevent global disaster, receiving a reply from Prometheans who deny such limits exist.Environmental Problem Solving - recognizes 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 conceptualized and promotes transformation in human consciousness, economics, and politics.John Dryzek provides a comprehensive and 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 will be fascinating and essential reading for all students of environmental politics and policy, and for anyone with an interest in environmental issues. show lessTags
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John S. Dryzek is Centenary Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance in the University of Canberra's Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and former Head of the Departments of Political Science at the Universities of Oregon and Melbourne, and show more the Social and Political Theory programme at the Australian National University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on environmental governance and politics, climate change, and democracy in theory and practice. show less
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- Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 363.7 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Public Safety - Police, Crime Investigation Environmental Issues - Pollution, Recycling, Global Warming
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- GE195 .D79 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Environmental Sciences Environmental sciences Environmentalism. Green movement
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