Living with nature : environmental politics as cultural discourse

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Author:

Fischer, Frank, 1942-

ISBN:

9780198292265

9780198295099

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Physical Description:

xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

Sustainable development and the crisis of nature on the political anatomy of an oxymoron / Wolfgang Sachs -- The North as/and the other: ecology, domination, solidarity / Yrjö Haila -- Nature in spiritual traditions: social and cultural implications for environmental change / Carolyn Egri -- Engineering the environment: the politics of nature development / Jozef Keulartz -- Eco-managerialism: environmental studies as a power/knowledge formation / Timothy Luke -- Mapping complex social-natural relationships: cases from Mexico and Africa / Peter J. Taylor -- Security and solidarity: an anti-reductionist analysis of environmental policy / Michael Thompson -- The environment of justice / David Harvey -- Images of place in green politics: the cultural mirror of indigenous traditions / Douglas Torgerson -- Partnership ethics and cultural discourse: women and the earth summit / Carolyn Merchant.

Subject Term:

Environmental policy.

Sustainable development.

Nature -- Social aspects.

Human ecology.

Added Author:

Fischer, Frank, 1942-

Hajer, Maarten A., 1962-

Electronic Access:

Oxford Scholarship Online http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/politicalscience/019829509X/toc.html

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Summary

Despite the optimism of the 'Earth Summit' held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the politics of environmental sustainable development has reached an impasse. Why do issues of environmental protection continue to take a back seat to economic competition, particularly in the international realm? Once the environmental problem was widely recognised, it was held that consensus could be reached. In practice, however, the development of sustainability had often continued to merely extend earlier technocratic practices and solutions, which fail to take into consideration the specific cultural questions. Living With Nature seeks to place the question of the dynamics of environmental crisis within a socio-cultural dimension of the existing economic and political institutions. The book argues for a need to find a new balance between a theoretical analysis of the debate and an appreciation of local circumstances, norms and knowledge. Politically, it implies an implicit understanding of the way in which we live together with nature.