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The political and environmental crises of the twenty-first century
require new approaches to the way we think and act politically.
This book explores the potential for engagement between green and
civic republican thought as part of these new approaches. The green
and civic republican traditions have important historical and
conceptual connections. They share an emphasis on the idea of
interdependence, the common good as distinct from individual and
sectional interests, and a corresponding critique of freedom as
non-interference and of arguments for minimising the state. Both
see the human project as marked by vulnerability, and the
achievement of stability and sustainability as a critical though
fragile goal, in whose realisation the state must play a
significant role. Both focus accordingly on constitutional law,
active citizenship and participatory democracy, and adopt a
critical stance towards economic inequality and capitalist economic
growth. The chapters address these in a variety of ways - from
examining fundamental concepts: freedom, rights and political
judgement, through analysing the potential grounds for connections
between green and republican political theory - vulnerability,
limits, sustainability and civic virtue - to outlining the kind of
agonistic republican politics and green political economy that
these imply. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of Critical Review of Social and Political
Philosophy.
The nature of environmental human rights and their relation to
larger rights theories has been a frequent topic of discussion in
law, environmental ethics and political theory. However, the
subject of environmental human rights has not been fully
established among other human rights concerns within political
philosophy and theory. In examining environmental rights from a
political theory perspective, this book explores an aspect of
environmental human rights that has received less attention within
the literature. In linking the constraints of political reality
with a focus on the theoretical underpinnings of how we think about
politics, this book explores how environmental human rights must
respond to the key questions of politics, such as the state and
sovereignty, equality, recognition and representation, and examines
how the competing understandings about these rights are also
related to political ideologies. Drawing together contributions
from a range of key thinkers in the field, this is a valuable
resource for students and scholars of human rights, environmental
ethics, and international environmental law and politics more
generally.
The nature of environmental human rights and their relation to
larger rights theories has been a frequent topic of discussion in
law, environmental ethics and political theory. However, the
subject of environmental human rights has not been fully
established among other human rights concerns within political
philosophy and theory. In examining environmental rights from a
political theory perspective, this book explores an aspect of
environmental human rights that has received less attention within
the literature. In linking the constraints of political reality
with a focus on the theoretical underpinnings of how we think about
politics, this book explores how environmental human rights must
respond to the key questions of politics, such as the state and
sovereignty, equality, recognition and representation, and examines
how the competing understandings about these rights are also
related to political ideologies. Drawing together contributions
from a range of key thinkers in the field, this is a valuable
resource for students and scholars of human rights, environmental
ethics, and international environmental law and politics more
generally.
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