Ecology and Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780714642529 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 248 str.

Freya Mathews; Freya Mathews

Opis

What is the optimal political framework for environmental reform - reform on a scale commensurate with the global ecological crisis? In particular, how adequate are liberal forms of parliamentary democracy to face the challenges posed by the crisis? These are the questions pondered by the contributors to this volume. Exploration of the possibilities of democracy gives rise to certain common themes. These include the relation between ecological morality and political structures or procedures and the question of the structure of decision-making and distribution of information in political systems. The idea of democracy without traditional boundaries is discussed as a key both to environmentalism in an age of global ecology and to the revitalization of democracy itself in a world of increasingly protean constituencies and mutable, indeed soluble, boundaries.

Spis treści

this is as good a collection as I have seen on this topic. Ethics Apr 1998



Reviewers Bookwatch, Jan 96

"An excellent contribution to today"s ongoing political discourse concerning the environment and is a highly recommended addition to any ecological studies reference book collection.

O autorze

Freya Mathews