Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism: The End of Environmentalism? (Routledge Ecpr Studies in European Political Science)

In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental political theory, concluding that although the alleged pacification of environmentalism is more than skin deep, it is not yet quite deep enough. This book will appeal to students and researchers of social science and philosophers with an interest in environmental issues. The role of environmentalism : from the Silent Spring to the Silent Revolution / Gayil Talshir The faces of endism : post-ecologism and the politics of simulation / Ingolfur Blhdorn The end of environmentalism (as we know it) / Yoram Levy Little green lies : on the redundancy of 'environment' / Marcel Wissenburg Democracy and environmentalism : the end of deep ecology? - not quite / Mike Mills and Fraser King The environment versus individual freedom and convenience / Marius de Geus Precaution, scientization or deliberation? Prospects for greening and democratizing science / Karin Bckstrand The good and green society : ecology, democracy and autonomy : a problem of wishful thinking / Mathew Humphrey A precautionary approach / Meira Hanson Liberal democracy and the shaping of environmentally enlightened citizens / Graham Smith Perspectives and possibilities Sustainability and plurality : from the moderate end of the liberal equilibrium to the open end of a situated liberal neutrality / Dorothee Horstktter The minimum irreversible harm principle : green inter-generational liberalism / Michael Wallack From environmental politics to the politics of the environment : the pacification and normalization of environmentalism? / John Barry.