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Green political thought / by Andrew Dobson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Edition: 4th edDescription: 225 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0415403529 (pbk.)
  • 9780415403511 (hardback)
  • 0415403510 (hardback)
  • 9780415403528 (pbk.)
  • 9780203964620
  • 0203964624
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JA75.8 .D63 2007
Contents:
Introduction -- Thinking about ecologism -- Sustainable societies -- Reasons to care for the environment -- Crisis and its political-strategic consequences -- Universality and social change -- Lessons from nature -- Left and right: communism and capitalism -- Historical specificity -- Conclusion -- Philosophical foundations -- Ethics: a code of conduct -- Ethics: a state of being -- Anthropocentrism -- Hybridity -- The sustainable society -- Limits to growth -- Possible positions -- More problems with growth -- Questioning consumption -- Energy -- Trade and travel -- Work -- Bioregionalism -- Agriculture -- Diversity -- Decentralization and its limits -- Strategies for green change -- Democracy and authoritarianism -- Action through and around the legislature -- Lifestyle -- Communities -- Direct action -- Fiscal incentives and ecological citizenship -- Class -- Conclusion -- Ecologism and other ideologies -- Liberalism -- Conservatism -- Socialism -- Feminism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Thinking about ecologism -- Sustainable societies -- Reasons to care for the environment -- Crisis and its political-strategic consequences -- Universality and social change -- Lessons from nature -- Left and right: communism and capitalism -- Historical specificity -- Conclusion -- Philosophical foundations -- Ethics: a code of conduct -- Ethics: a state of being -- Anthropocentrism -- Hybridity -- The sustainable society -- Limits to growth -- Possible positions -- More problems with growth -- Questioning consumption -- Energy -- Trade and travel -- Work -- Bioregionalism -- Agriculture -- Diversity -- Decentralization and its limits -- Strategies for green change -- Democracy and authoritarianism -- Action through and around the legislature -- Lifestyle -- Communities -- Direct action -- Fiscal incentives and ecological citizenship -- Class -- Conclusion -- Ecologism and other ideologies -- Liberalism -- Conservatism -- Socialism -- Feminism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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