The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty

Neuausgabe 2004
ISBN: 978-0-262-05074-6
Verlag: MIT PR

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new
book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state
as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate
growth-dependent welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state -- seeking,
she writes, "to navigate between undisciplined political imagination and pessimistic
resignation to the status quo." In recent years, most environmental scholars and
environmentalists have characterized the sovereign state as ineffectual and have
criticized nations for perpetuating ecological destruction. Going consciously
against the grain of much current thinking, this book argues that the state is still
the preeminent political institution for addressing environmental problems. States
remain the gatekeepers of the global order, and greening the state is a necessary
step, Eckersley argues, toward greening domestic and international policy and
law.

The Green State seeks to connect the
moral and practical concerns of the environmental movement with contemporary
theories about the state, democracy, and justice. Eckersley's proposed "critical
political ecology" expands the boundaries of the moral community to include the
natural environment in which the human community is embedded. This is the first book
to make the vision of a "good" green state explicit, to explore the obstacles to its
achievement, and to suggest practical constitutional and multilateral arrangements
that could help transform the liberal democratic state into a postliberal green
democratic state. Rethinking the state in light of the principles of ecological
democracy ultimately casts it in a new role: that of an ecological steward and
facilitator of transboundary democracy rather than a selfish actor jealously
protecting its territory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eckersley, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Über Autor(innen)

Eckersley, Robyn
Robyn Eckersley is Reader/Associate Professor in the Department of Political
Science at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of <I>The Green
State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty</I> (MIT Press, 2004).

Robyn Eckersley is Reader/Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2004).