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Ecological Governance : Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth /
"As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Can liberal democracy, he wonders, respond in time to ecological challenges that require dramatic changes in the way w...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.