Deliberative democracy and the environment / Graham Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Graham, 1966-

Series:

Environmental politics.

Environmental politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Green movement.

Democracy.

Environmental ethics.

Physical Description:

xii, 163 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

One of the key questions to have exercised green political theorists in recent years concerns the relationship of the environment 'agenda' and democracy. Both environmentalists and democrats have a tendency to think of each other as natural bedfellows but in fact there is little theoretical or practical reason why they should be. Indeed some theorists have argued that the environmental movement has grown from fundamentally authoritarian roots and it is arguable that the only really effective way of implementing environmental politics is by imposing them in an authoritarian manner. This book deals with the tensions between democracy and environmentalism from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-157) and index.

ISBN:

0415309395

0415309409

OCLC:

50803462