The Political Ecology of the State: The Basis and the Evolution of Environmental Statehood

ISBN-13: 9780367669577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

Opis

The Political Ecology of the State is the first book to critically assess the philosophical basis of environmental statehood and regulation, addressing the emergence and evolution of environmental regulation from the early 20^th Century to the more recent phase of ecological modernisation and the neoliberalisation of nature.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of the Book Chapter 2. The Reason and the Purpose of Environmental Statehood Chapter 3. Early and Conventional Environmental Statehood: Unpacking the Hobbesian Influence Chapter 4. Responding to Regulation Rigidity and Persisting Socioecological Problems: The Kantian Basis of the Transition Chapter 5. The Contingent Relation between Flexible Environmental Statehood and the Neoliberalisation of Socionature Chapter 6. Flexible Environmental Statehood as the Realisation (Actualisation) of the Hegelian State Chapter 7. What is Beyond Flexible Environmental Statehood and the Naïve Faith in the Eco-state?

O autorze

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is Lecturer in Environment and Society, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. His main areas of research are related to the search for environmental justice in the urban and regional contexts, and the multiple obstacles faced by marginalised communities to influence environmental decision-making. He has extensive experience with policy-making and project management in the UK, Portugal, Brazil and Latin America.