The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd Edition
Glossary Ecological modernisationApolicy strategy which aims to restructure capitalist political economy along more environmenta ...
Glossary PartypoliticisationAprocess whereby the environment ascends the political agenda to become electorally salient and the ...
Glossary Sustainable developmentThe ability of the present generation to meet its needs without undermining the ability of futur ...
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Introduction 1 The environment has been on the political agenda since the late 1960s. Much has happened in that time, but is the ...
INTRODUCTION Table 1.1 Ecological footprint estimates, 1961–2001 (global hectares per capita, rounded) Ecological footprint Biol ...
Introduction Climate change:Any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or to human activity. internatio ...
INTRODUCTION Ozone depletion:Depletion of ozone in the Earth’s upper atmosphere which leaves the surface of the Earth vulnerable ...
Introduction 1.1 Evolution of environmental issues First generation: preservation and conservation (pre-1960s) Protection of wil ...
INTRODUCTION of Americans celebrated and protested on Earth Day; still the largest envi- ronmental demonstration in history. The ...
Introduction New politics:The view that since the late 1960s the rise of postmaterial values, a new middle class and new social ...
INTRODUCTION Traditional policy paradigm:An approach to the environment that treats each problem discretely, gives priority to e ...
Introduction and challenged the influence of producer interests over the policy process. The sustainable development paradigm fo ...
INTRODUCTION as part of colonial expansion. Wall (1994b)provides an interesting anthol- ogy of early green writings. For a histo ...
PART 1 Theory: thinking about the environment Part examines how political theorists think about environmental issues. Specifical ...
THEORY reaching the sustainable society. By contrast, reformist approaches do not add up to an ideology. They offer no distincti ...
Environmental philosophy 2 Contents Staking out the territory 14 Types of value 14 The anthropocentric–ecocentric divide 15 A gr ...
THEORY toreduce the pressure on the natural environment? Is it wrong to eat meat? Environmental ethics, by examining questions a ...
Environmental philosophy 2.1 Defining value Instrumental valueis the value which something hasfor someoneas ameans to an endwhi ...
THEORY 2.2 The roots of anthropocentrism The Bible? The ‘historical roots of our ecological crisis’ can be located in the despo ...
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