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The environmental politics of sacrifice / edited by Michael Maniates and John M. Meyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy.
- Sacrifice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work provides an argument that the idea of sacrifice, with all its political baggage, opens new paths to environmental sustainability.
- Contents:
- Must we sacrifice? confronting the politics of sacrifice in an ecologically full world / John M. Meyer and Michael Maniates
- Asking the right questions
- A democratic politics of sacrifice? / John M. Meyer
- Sacrifice in an age of comfort / Paul Wapner
- Freedom, values, and sacrifice : overcoming obstacles to environmentally sustainable behavior / Cheryl Hall
- Seeing sacrifice in everyday life
- Ordinary and extraordinary sacrifices : religion, everyday life, and environmental practice / Anna Peterson
- The sacred and the profane in the ecological politics of sacrifice / Karen Litfin
- Consumer sovereignty, heroic sacrifice : two insidious concepts in an endlessly expansionist economy / Thomas Princen
- Parental sacrifice as atonement for future climate change / Sudhir Chella Rajan
- Obstacles and opportunities
- Self-interest, sacrifice and climate change : (re- )framing the British Columbia carbon tax / Shane Gunster
- Civic virtue and sacrifice in a suburban nation / Peter Cannavò
- Bikes, sticks, carrots / Justin Williams
- Intelligent design? : unpacking geoengineering's hidden sacrifices / Simon Nicholson
- Struggling with sacrifice : take back your time and right2vacation.org / Michael Maniates
- Conclusion : sacrifice and a new environmental politics / Michael Maniates and John M. Meyer.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612737015
- 9780262288781
- 0262288788
- 9781282737013
- 1282737015
- 9780262289603
- 0262289601
- OCLC:
- 648759766
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