Political Theory and Global Climate Change
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-72052-6 (ISBN)
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Climate change will shape the political, economic, and cultural landscape as surely as it shapes the natural landscape. It challenges our existing political institutions, ethical theories, and ways of conceptualizing the human relationship to the environment, it defies current principles of distributive justice, transcends current discourses on rights, and disrupts our sense of place. Political Theory and Global Climate Change argues that the conceptual tools of political theory can help us understand the obstacles to fair and effective global climate change policies, and this volume offers a selection of innovative and integrative scholarly efforts to do so. Illuminating the variety of political, economic, and social problems caused by global warming, the book applies a range of theoretical approaches and methodologies-from analytic philosophy and constitutional and legal theory to neo-Marxism and critical theory-using climate change as a case to test standard normative and empirical premises.
The book first looks at distributive justice concerns raised by climate change, including allocation of the global atmospheric commons and how to establish the basis for a fair and effective global climate policy regime, then examines the complex relationships between climate change and society, including the way that social institutions and practices construct, reinforce, aim to address, and are disrupted by climatic instability. Showing how political theory challenges and is challenged by global climate change, the book both demonstrates and evaluates innovative approaches in the developing field of environmental political theory.
Contributors
Martin J. Adamian, John Barry, Peter F. Cannavo, Stephen Gardiner, George Gonzalez, Amy Lovecraft, Timothy W. Luke, Leigh Raymond, Steve Vanderheiden
Steve Vanderheiden is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change. John Barry is Reader in Green Political Economy, at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast. Leigh Raymond is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, the coauthor of Buying Nature: The Limits of Land Acquisition as a Conservation Strategy, 1780-2004 (MIT Press) and the author of Private Rights in Public Resources: Equity and Property Allocation in Market-Based Environmental Policy. Steve Vanderheiden is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change. Peter Cannavo is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Hamilton College and the author of The Working Landscape (MIT Press).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Political Theory and Global Climate Change |
| Co-Autor | Leigh Raymond, Stephen Gardiner, Steve Vanderheiden |
| Vorwort | John Barry |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 figures |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-262-72052-3 / 0262720523 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-72052-6 / 9780262720526 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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