Overview

Debating the Earth brings together over 40 essential readings that illustrate the diversity of political responses to environmental issues. They are organized in a way that emphasizes the differences and debates across the various schools of thought on environmental affairs and there is a mixture of classic pieces and cutting-edge essays. The key debates that are covered include the severity of environmental problems, reformist responses to environmental issues, the environment and economics and green critiques. The second edition includes a new section on 'The Global South and Indigenous Perspectives' which broadens the geographical scope. 25 extracts are new to this edition and there are more extracts by women.

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Author:   John S. Dryzek (Head of Social and Political Theory Programme, Australian National University, Canberra) ,  David Schlosberg (, Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.283kg
ISBN:  

9780199276295

ISBN 10:   0199276293
Pages:   674
Publication Date:   23 December 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part One: Feast or Famine? The severity of environmental problems Section One: Limits and Survivalism 1: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William H. Behrens III: The Limits to Growth 2: Garrett Hardin: The Tragedy of the Commons 3: Lester Brown: A Planet Under Stress Section Two: The Promethean Response 4: Julian L. Simon and Herman Kahn: Introduction to the Resourceful Earth 5: Bjorn Lomborg: The Truth about the Environment 6: Tom Burke: Ten Pinches of Salt Part Two: Reformist Responses Section Three: Administrative Rationalism7: Robert V. Bartlett: Rationality and the Logic of the National Environmental Policy Act 8: Kai Lee: Appraising Adaptive Management 9: Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, and Bradley Karkkainen: Beyond Backyard Environmentalism 10: Mary O'Brien: Goal: Replace Risk Assessment with Alternatives Assessment Section Four: Liberal Democracy 11: Mark Sagoff: The Allocation and Distribution of Resources 12: Robert Paehlke: Democracy and Environmentalism 13: Marcel Wissenburg: Sustainability and the Limits of Liberalism 14: William P. Ophuls with A. Stephen Boyan, Jr.: The American Political Economy II: The Non-Politics of Laissez Faire Part Three: Environment and Economics Section Five: Market Liberalism 15: Terry L. Anderson and Donald T. Leal: Rethinking the Way We Think 16: Robert Stavins and Bradley Whitehead: Market-Based Environmental Policies 17: Robert E. Goodin: Selling Environmental Indulgences Section Six: Sustainable Development 18: World Commission on Environment and Development: From One Earth to One World 19: James Meadowcroft: ""Sustainable Development: a New(ish) Idea for a New Century?"" 20: David Carruthers: ""From Opposition to Orthodoxy: The Remaking of Sustainable Development"" Section Seven: Ecological Modernization 21: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins: The Next Industrial Revolution 22: John Barry: Ecological Modernization Part Four: Green Social Critiques Section Eight: Deep Ecology and Bioregionalism 23: Arne Naess: The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary 24: Dave Foreman: Putting the Earth First 25: Jim Dodge: Living by Life: Some Bioregional Theory and Practice 26: Robyn Eckersley: ""Ecocentric Discourses: Problems and Future Prospects for Nature Advocacy"" Section Nine: Social and Socialist Ecology 27: Murray Bookchin: Society and Ecology 28: Ynestra King: Toward an Ecological Feminism and a Feminist Ecology 29: Joel Kovel: Ecosocialism Section Ten: Environmental Justice 30: First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit: Principles of Environmental Justice 31: Robert Bullard: Environmental Justice in the 21st Century 32: Celene Krauss: Women of Color on the Front Line Section Eleven: Southern and Indigenous Perspectives 33: Ramachandra Guha and Juan M. Alier: Environmentalism of the Poor 34: Vandana Shiva: On Poverty and Globalization 35: Winona LaDuke: Introduction and Conclusion to All My Relations 36: Fabienne Bayet: Overturning the Doctrine: Indigenous People and Wilderness - Being Aboriginal in the Environmental Movement Part Five: Society, the State and the Environment Section Eleven: The Green Movement 37: Doug Torgerson: Farewell to the Green Movement? Political Action and the Green Public Sphere 38: David Schlosberg: Networks and Mobile Arrangements: Organizational Innovation in the U.S. Environmental Justice Movement 39: Paul Wapner: Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics 40: Thomas Poguntke: Green Parties in National Governments: From Protest to Acquiescence? Section Twelve: Ecological Democracy 41: Ulrich Beck: The Politics of the Risk Society 42: Andrew Dobson: Ecological Citizenship 43: Val Plumwood: Inequality, Ecojustice, and Ecological Rationality 44: John S. Dryzek: Political and Ecological Communication"

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'The editors should be congratulated on putting together a collection in which every item is worth reading and where the whole is equal to the sum of the parts' Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University. 'I am convinced that this excellent, accessible and wide-ranging book will find its way into many libraries and on to personal bookshelves'R Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University.

`I am convinced that this excellent, accessible and wide-ranging book will find its way into many libraries and on to personal bookshelves'R Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University. `The editors should be congratulated on putting together a collection in which every item is worth reading and where the whole is equal to the sum of the parts' Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University.

`The editors should be congratulated on putting together a collection in which every item is worth reading and where the whole is equal to the sum of the parts' Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University. `I am convinced that this excellent, accessible and wide-ranging book will find its way into many libraries and on to personal bookshelves'R Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University.

Author Information

John S. Dryzek was the Head of the Political Science Departments at both Oregon and Melbourne. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He is currently the Head of the Social and Political Theory Program at The Australian National University David Schlosberg has taught at Northern Arizona University and the London School of Economics and is currently on sabbatical from the University of Arizona as a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellow at ANU, Canberra.

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