Sherry Cable

Sustainable Failures

Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-Dependent World

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Produktbeschreibung

Sherry Cable is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Tennessee Teaching & Learning Center at the University of Tennessee. She is the author (with Charles Cable) of Environmental Problems/Grassroots Solutions: The Politics of Grassroots Environmental Conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781439909003
• ISBN-10: 1439909008
• Artikelnr.: 34983815

Autorenporträt

Sherry Cable is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Tennessee Teaching & Learning Center at the University of Tennessee. She is the author (with Charles Cable) of Environmental Problems/Grassroots Solutions: The Politics of Grassroots Environmental Conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
PART I Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy
1 The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy
2 Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental
Policies
3 The Poisoning of the Biosphere: The Petro-dependent Mode of Subsistence
PART Il The United States: Prototype Petro-dependent Society
4 Petro-dependent Environmental Policies
5 Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution
6 Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of
Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens
7 Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices
8 Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State
and Its Institutional and Cultural Reflections
PART III Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire
9 International Environmental Policymaking
10 Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate
Change
11 Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate State
PART IV And So . . .
12 Once There Was a Planet in the Way Galaxy. . .
APPENDIX Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan
of Action for the Protection
of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities
References
Index