Ecological Governance : Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth / Bruce Jennings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jennings, Bruce, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Environmental economics.

Environmental policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Environmental policy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Ecological Governance is an ethicist's reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people have given political and economic control to elites in exchange for the promise of economic growth. In a new political economy of the future, the terms of the consumptive contract cannot be met without severe ecological damage"-- Provided by publisher.

"As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Can liberal democracy, he wonders, respond in time to ecological challenges that require dramatic changes in the way we approach the natural world? Must a more effective governance be less democratic and more autocratic? Or can a new form of grassroots ecological democracy save us from ourselves and the false promises of material consumption run amok?Ecological Governance is an ethicist's reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people have given political and economic control to elites in exchange for the promise of economic growth. In a new political economy of the future, the terms of the consumptive contract cannot be met without severe ecological damage. We will need a new guiding vision and collective aim, a new social contract of ecological trusteeship and responsibility. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Rethinking Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness on a Planet in Crisis

1. The Social Contract

2. Political Economy

Part II. Natural Being, Cultural Becoming: Nature in Humans

3. The Roots and Logic of Social Contract Theory

4. The Uses of Nature and Culture: Artifice and Accommodation

5. Re-enchanting the Social Contract

Part III. Terms of an Ecological Contract: Humans in Nature

6. Agency, Rules, and Relationships in an Ecological Social Contract

7. Wealth: From Affluence to Plenitude

8. Property: From Commodity to Commons

9. Freedom: Relational Interdependence

10. Citizenship: From Electoral Consumer to Ecological Trustee

Part IV. The Political Economy of Climate Change-Democracy, If We Can Keep It

11. The Ecological Contract and Climate Change

12. An Inquiry into the Democratic Prospect

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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About the Author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781943665174

1943665176

9781943665167

1943665168

OCLC:

949749631