Green Liberalism: The Free And The Green Society

by Marcel Wissenburg

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857288490
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/1998
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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;

Editorial Reviews

Early chapters address the essentials of liberal democracy, concepts of green political and philosophical ideas, and the history and future of green liberalism. Later chapters discuss the metaphysical and metaethical aspects of the value that liberals can or should attach to nature, and deal with property rights and issues of sustainability. Concludes that liberal democracy is compatible with but cannot guarantee sustainability more or less than any other political system. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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