What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this
important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to
create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical
liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent
welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state -- seeking,
she writes, "to navigate between undisciplined political
imagination and pessimistic resignation to the status quo." In
recent years, most environmental scholars and environmentalists
have characterized the sovereign state as ineffectual and have
criticized nations for perpetuating ecological destruction. Going
consciously against the grain of much current thinking, this book
argues that the state is still the preeminent political institution
for addressing environmental problems. States remain the
gatekeepers of the global order, and greening the state is a
necessary step, Eckersley argues, toward greening domestic and
international policy and law.The Green State seeks to connect the
moral and practical concerns of the environmental movement with
contemporary theories about the state, democracy, and justice.
Eckersley's proposed "critical political ecology" expands the
boundaries of the moral community to include the natural
environment in which the human community is embedded. This is the
first book to make the vision of a "good" green state explicit, to
explore the obstacles to its achievement, and to suggest practical
constitutional and multilateral arrangements that could help
transform the liberal democratic state into a postliberal green
democratic state. Rethinking the state in light of the principles
of ecological democracy ultimately casts it in a new role: that of
an ecological steward and facilitator of transboundary democracy
rather than a selfish actor jealously protecting its territory.
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