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The Promise of Green Politics: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere
Douglas Torgerson
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Description for The Promise of Green Politics: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere
paperback. Offers a survey of different strands of ecological schools of thought, discusses their implications for the larger political sphere, and advances a three-dimensional concept of politics that emphasises ethics and discourse, as well as strategy. This title is suitable for those interested in environmental and public policy, and social activism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Politics today is dominated by business news and the stock market. But those in support of green politics ask whether human profit should continue to be the bottom line of political deliberations or if it is time for the interests of the natural world to combine with or even displace the interests of business. In The Promise of Green Politics Douglas Torgerson offers a survey of different schools of ecological thought, discusses their implications for the larger political sphere, and advances a three-dimensional concept of politics that emphasizes ethics and discourse as well as strategy.
Arguing that the environmental movement ... Read more
Politics today is dominated by business news and the stock market. But those in support of green politics ask whether human profit should continue to be the bottom line of political deliberations or if it is time for the interests of the natural world to combine with or even displace the interests of business. In The Promise of Green Politics Douglas Torgerson offers a survey of different schools of ecological thought, discusses their implications for the larger political sphere, and advances a three-dimensional concept of politics that emphasizes ethics and discourse as well as strategy.
Arguing that the environmental movement ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822323709
SKU
V9780822323709
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99-1
About Douglas Torgerson
Douglas Torgerson is Professor of both Political Studies and Environmental and Resource Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of Industrialization and Assessment: Social Impact Assessment as a Social Phenomenon and coeditor of Managing Leviathan: Environmental Politics and the Administrative State.
Reviews for The Promise of Green Politics: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere
“A clear and major advance. . . . The Promise of Green Politics represents a new generation of green political thought that moves beyond earlier texts, which were mostly concerned with staking out the territory. Torgerson tackles many—perhaps most—of the key issues and questions left hanging by others and does so in sophisticated and convincing fashion.”— John Dryzek, author of ... Read more