Green liberalism : the free and the green society
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Green liberalism : the free and the green society
UCL Press, 1998
- : pbk
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Bibliographical references : p. 233-240
Includes index
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Description
This is an agenda-setting exploration of the relationship between green politics and liberal ideology. Ecological problems provide unique challenges for liberal democracies.; This challenge is examined by the author who aims to fill the gap between short-term ecological modernization and the politically infeasible longer term utopian approaches.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Liberal democracy
- Introduction
- Preferences
- Rights ***
- Democracy
- Equality
- Liberty
- An overview
- Chapter 2 Green political theory
- Introduction
- Metaphysics - nature and the universe
- Ethics - humans in nature
- Politics - the shape of a green society
- Policies
- Compatibility
- Chapter 3 The possibility of green liberalism
- Introduction
- Classical and sensualist liberalism
- The greening of liberalism
- The green problems of liberalism
- AIDS, women and deforestation
- Intermezzo
- Chapter 4 On value
- Intrinsic and external value
- In the eyes of the beholder
- Substitutability
- Inclusion and exclusion
- Chapter 5 The distribution of rights
- Spheres of rights
- The restraint principle
- 5.3 The savings principle and the restraint principle
- Chapter 6 Population policies
- Strategies of sustainability
- The idea of a sustainable population
- Procreative rights
- The attribution of procreative rights
- Alternative strategies and parameters
- Chapter 7 Distributive solutions
- Introduction
- Internal justice
- 'International' justice
- Intergenerational justice
- Interspecies justice
- Dynamics and uncertainty
- Chapter 8 Supply-side politics
- Tactics
- 8.2 Green technology
- Biodiversity and policy diversity
- The shape of things to come
- Chapter 9 Beyond sustainabilityThe limits of sustainabilityRelaxing conditions, strengthening tiesEconomic liberalismDeliberative democracy and the last tabooConcluding remarks
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