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Ecology and Democracy (Paperback)
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What is the optimal framework for environmental reform - reform on
a scale commensurate with the global ecological crisis? In
particular, how adequate are liberal forms of parliamentary
democracy to the challenge posed by this crisis? These are the
questions pondered by the contributors to the present volume. In
their evaluations of liberalism, these authors range from qualified
defence to extensive critique, though the majority regard democracy
in some - not necessarily liberal - form as the most promising
vehicle for ecopolitics. Exploration of the possibilities of
democracy in this connection gives rise to certain common themes.
These include, firstly, that of the relation between ecological
morality and political structures of procedures: are certain
political systems more conducive than others to the flowering of an
ecological outlook, or are the moral values of citizens formed
independently of political processes? A second theme relates to the
question of the structure of decision-making and distribution of
information in political systems: are ecological interests best
served by centralised or decentralised political scenarios? The
latter question leads, in several contributions, to ideas of
'democracy without traditional boundaries', where this idea is
taken, in different ways by different authors, as a key both to
environmentalism in an age of global ecology and to the
revitalisation of democracy itself in a world of increasingly
protean constituencies and mutable, indeed soluble, boundaries.
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