Environmental Futures

The book comprises thirteen papers on environmental issues, with particular reference to future developments (for example, new technologies, paths in social and political theory, methodologies). It is divided into three sections, moving from social constructions of 'the environment' in the first section to questions of green political theory and practice in the second, and concluding with issues of environmental risk and future technologies. The work is interdisciplinary, with contributors ranging from philosophers to human geographers. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Picking at the Locke of Economic Reductionism....Pages 3-23 Employing Qualitative Methods in the Assessment of Environmental Policy....Pages 24-38 Think Local, Act Global: Discourses of Environment and Local Protest....Pages 39-53 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Green Politics and Intergenerational Justice: Posterity, Progress and the Environment....Pages 57-72 Green Political Strategy and the State....Pages 73-87 The Tragedy of Competitive Deregulation: Investment Codes, the World Bank and the Environment....Pages 88-102 The Future of Environmental Direct Action: a Case for Tolerating Disobedience....Pages 103-120 Environmental ‘Whistleblowers’....Pages 121-134 Utopias and Environmentalist Ambivalence Concerning Science....Pages 135-149 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Biotechnology Regulation: De/Politicizing Uncertainty....Pages 153-168 A Contextual Approach to the Waste Disposal System: the Case of Incineration....Pages 169-184 ‘Take My Breath Away’: Can Technical Fixes Make Cars Environmentally Friendly?....Pages 185-198 Evil Developers and Green Fairies....Pages 199-215 Back Matter....Pages 216-230 The thirteen essays that comprise this book on environmental issues, by contributors ranging from philosophers to human geographers, pay particular attention to future developments, new technologies, paths in social and political theory and methodologies. The book moves from social constructions of "the environment" to questions of green political theory and practice and concludes with issues of environmental risk and future technologies.
"This book, which will be of interest to environmental academics and professionals, contains the pick of new research presented at the 1994 conference of the Interdisciplinary Research Network on Environment and Society (IRNES). With an appraising foreword by Ted Benton, the selection reflects the breadth of ecological concerns, all with an eye to future developments in the field."--BOOK JACKET A collection of thirteen papers on environmental issues. The essays have been divided into three sections, moving from social constructions of the environment, to questions of green political theory and practice, and concluding with issues of environmental risk and future technologies.