Real green : sustainability after the end of nature / Manuel Arias-Maldonado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arias-Maldonado, Manuel.

Series:

Rethinking political and international theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ecology.

Green movement.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

x, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]

Summary:

This thoughtful volume on the politics of environmentalism advocates for an alternative to traditional narratives about nature and sustainability and explores the development of a realpolitik approach to sustainability advocacy. The author contends that nature itself is a concept belonging to history and myth, that the remains of the natural world are now a human environment, and that practical, limited and culturally tuned approaches to improving the quality of human dominion over human environments will have a greater chance of winning widespread adoption in modern liberal democratic societies. Arias-Maldonado is a professor at the University of Málaga, Spain. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: an imaginary crisis? reframing green environmentalism

Nature and society: society within nature; nature within society; from nature to human environment

Sustainability after the end of nature: the principle of sustainability; the politics of sustainability

Towards a green liberal society: green politics, democracy and liberalism; can we democratise sustainability?; ecological citizenship and sustainability

Conclusion: the future of environmentalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409424093

140942409X

9781409424109

1409424103

OCLC:

746618751