Greening Environmental Policy
Subtitle: The Politics of a Sustainable Future
Contributors: Frank Fischer (Editor); Michael Black (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312127923
Subjects: Environmental Science; Science / Environmental Science; Social Science / General; Environmental Studies; Textbooks; Environmental policy; Sustainable development; Nature/Ecology
Description: Broadly committed to the goals and values of a green political perspective, the chapters in this book show the environmental crisis to be essentially a political-economic crisis. The pursuit of sustainability cannot proceed without significant changes in our economic enterprises, public institutions and personal lives.

Reaching beyond the contradictions of sustainable development, the authors explore the kinds of political arrangements needed to throw open sustainability to wide-ranging debate, both national and international. They advance alternative environmental policymaking processes designed to forge a genuine political consensus around these questions, as well as institutional, cultural and behavioural strategies capable of translating it into effective policy solutions.

Fundamental to these strategies, a progressive commitment to participatory democracy is seen to provide the surest footing for both the articulation and realization of a sustainable future.