ABSTRACT
What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of green politics "Real Green; Sustainability after the End of Nature" offers new answers to the key questions of the environmental debate. In this ground-breaking and challenging work Manuel Arias-Maldonado convincingly argues that, since nature has now been transformed into a part of the human environment, it can be seen to no longer exist. Ecological problems thus become an inevitable and normal feature of our relationship with nature. Hence a post-natural environmentalism, realistic and liberal while remaining green, is advocated. In this framework, sustainability, democracy and liberalism become mutually reinforcing elements rather than conflicting ones. Only by combining them can a green society be realised.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
Introduction: An Imaginary Crisis? Reframing Environmentalism
part |52 pages
Nature and Society
chapter |18 pages
Society within Nature
chapter |16 pages
Nature within Society
chapter |16 pages
From Nature to Human Environment
part |48 pages
Sustainability After the End of Nature
chapter |21 pages
The Principle of Sustainability
chapter |24 pages
The Politics of Sustainability
part |59 pages
Towards a Green Liberal Society