ABSTRACT
In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental political theory, concluding that although the alleged pacification of environmentalism is more than skin deep, it is not yet quite deep enough. This book will appeal to students and researchers of social science and philosophers with an interest in environmental issues.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |39 pages
Part I The faces of endism
part |40 pages
Part II Democracy and environmentalism
chapter |13 pages
8 Precaution, scientization or deliberation?
part |39 pages
Part III The good and green society
part |44 pages
Part IV Perspectives and possibilities