The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd Edition

Contents

List of figures pagex

List of tables xi

List of boxes xii

Preface to the second edition xiv

Acknowledgements xv

Abbreviations xvi

Glossary xviii

1 Introduction^1

PART 1 Theory: thinking about the environment

2 Environmental philosophy^13

Stakingout the territory 14

Holistic perspectives 19

Moral extensionism 26

Conclusion: Breaking down the anthropocentric–ecocentric

divide 35

3 Green political thought^41

The central ideas of ecologism 42

Traditional political ideologies and the green challenge 66

Neither left nor right but in front? 76

PART 2 Parties and movements: getting from here to there

4 Green parties: the rise of a new politics?^87

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