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Ecological governance : toward a new social contract with the earth /

"Ecological Governance is an ethicist's reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people have given political and econom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jennings, Bruce, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Rethinking life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on a planet in crisis. 1. The social contract; 2. Political economy
  • Part II. Natural being, cultural becoming; nature in humans. 3. The roots and logic of social contract theory; 4. The uses of nature and culture: artifice and accommodation; Re-enchanting the social contract.
  • Part III: Terms of an ecological contract: humans in nature. 6. Agency, rules and relationshps in an ecological social contract; 7. Wealth from afluence to plenitude; 8. Property: from commodity to comons; 9. Freedom: relational interdependence; 10. Citizenship: from electoral consumer to ecological trustee
  • Part IV: The political economy of climate change
  • democracy, if we can keep it. 11. The ecological contract and climate change; 12. An inquiry into the Democratic prospect.