1st Edition
Seeking Sustainability On the prospect of an ecological liberalism
By G. J Paton
Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations. The renewed interest in climate change and sustainability attests to the lack of progress achieved by the ‘sustainable development’ regime and to the need for more appropriate frameworks for guiding social organisation toward ecological sustainability. This book is born of the need for a... Read more
Introduction, 1. Ecological Political Economy, Part 1: Theorising Embeddedness for Sustainability, 2. Ecological Sustainability and Embeddedness, 3. Embeddedness in Liberalism and Neo-liberalism, Part 2: Policy and Governance for Sustainability, 4. Changing Discourses of Sustainability, 5. Environmental Neo-liberalism, Part 3: Greening Liberal Theory for Sustainability, 6. The Substantive Roots of Liberalism, 7. Economic Liberalism, 8. Political Liberalism, 9. Social Liberalism, 10. The Sustainability of Liberalism
Biography
G.J Paton is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia.
