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  • Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions

    by Joel J. Kassiola, Qian Guo, Shiyuan Hao, Barbara A. Holzman, Xiao Hang Liu, Gary W. Pahl, Yin Peng, Guoqing Shi0, Fang Sumei1, Guan Yi2, Li Yujun3, Qiu Zhong4, Jian Zhou5, Sheldon Gen6 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable use of biodiversity resources as a result of growing interaction between human activities and ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making

    Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law

    by Susan Buck, Robert Paehlke, Joel J. Kassiola ...
    In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of environmental policy. Emphasizing the concept of sustainability and the centrality of moral deliberation to democracy, they examine the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Explorations in Environmental Political Theory

    Thinking About What We Value

    by Joel Jay Kassiola ...
    The contributors to this volume focus on the political and value issues that, in their shared view, underlie the global environmental crisis facing us today. They argue that only by transforming our dominant values, social institutions and way of living can we avoid ecological disaster. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Politics and Theory

    Edited by Joel Jay Kassiola, Timothy W. Luke ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Handbook aims to provide a unique and convenient one-volume reference work, exhibiting the latest interdisciplinary explorations in this urgently burgeoning field of intellectual and practical importance. Due to its immense range and diversity, environmental politics and theory necessarily encompasses: empirical, normative, policy, political, organizational, and activist discussions unfolding ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • China’s Environmental Crisis

    Domestic and Global Political Impacts and Responses

    Edited by J. Kassiola ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This path-breaking collection covers the significance of China's extreme environmental challenges for both Chinese society and the world, how these challenges are impacting domestic Chinese society and its political institutions, and how these institutions are responding in their efforts to address the environmental problems. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

    by Allen Thompson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet. Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the basic conditions ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Green Political Thought

    by Andrew Dobson ...
    This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published.Andrew Dobson describes and assesses the political ideology of ‘ecologism’, and compares this radical view of remedies for the environmental crisis with the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Environmental Ethics

    An Overview for the Twenty-First Century

    by Robin Attfield ...
    In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers.The book introduces environmental problems and environmental ethics and surveys theories of the sources of the problems. Attfield also ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Marxism and Environmental Crises

    by David Layfield ...
    How can Marxism help us understand the contemporary environmental situation? How can Marxism help greens respond to this situation? Marxism and Environmental Crises answers these questions by claiming that Marxism offers a uniquely useful means to understand the various environmental crises that affect the contemporary world.The strength of Marxism, the author claims, lies in its ability to ... Read more

    $10.13 USD

  • Climate Crisis and the Democratic Prospect

    Participatory Governance in Sustainable Communities

    by Frank Fischer ...
    Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis? Some argue that democracy has to be a central part of a strategy to deal with climate change. Others argue that experience shows it not to be up to the challenge in the time frame available-that it will require a stronger hand, even a form of eco-authoritarianism. A question that does not lend itself to an easy assessment, this volume ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Gardens of Democracy

    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Feminist Theory

    From Margin to Center

    by bell hooks ...
    When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist ... Read more

    $38.99 USD