Environmental Futures

by Fairweather, N. Ben

• ISBN13: 9780312216511
• ISBN10: 0312216513
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

N. Ben Fairweather is Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester. Sue Elworthy is Lecturer at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.

Matt Stroh is in the Department of Geography at the University of Leeds.

Piers H. G. Stephens is Lecturer in Social Philosophy at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii	(3)
Ted Benton
Notes on the Contributors	x
PART I CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT	3	(54)
1 Picking at the Locke of Economic Reductionism	3	(21)
Piers H. G. Stephens
2 Employing Qualitative Methods in the Assessment of Environmental Policy	24	(15)
Matt Stroh
3 Think Local, Act Global: Discourses of Environment and Local Protest	39	(18)
Joanne Jordan
Nigel Gilbert
PART II IDEOLOGY INTO PRACTICE	57	(96)
4 Green Politics and Intergenerational Justice: Posterity, Progress and the Environment	57	(16)
John Barry
5 Green Political Strategy and the State	73	(15)
Matthew Paterson
6 The Tragedy of Competitive Deregulation: Investment Codes, the World Bank and the Environment	88	(15)
Dominic Hogg
7 The Future of Environmental Direct Action: a Case for Tolerating Disobedience	103	(18)
N. Ben Fairweather
8 Environmental `Whistleblowers'	121	(14)
Stephen Homewood
David Lewis
9 Utopias and Environmentalist Ambivalence Concerning Science	135	(18)
Eeva Berglund
PART III RISK AND FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES	153	(63)
10 Biotechnology Regulation: De/Politicizing Uncertainty	153	(16)
Les Levidow
Susan Carr
11 A Contextual Approach to the Waste Disposal System: the Case of Incineration	169	(16)
B. Victor Bratley
12 `Take My Breath Away': Can Technical Fixes Make Cars Environmentally Friendly?	185	(14)
Alan Neale
13 Evil Developers and Green Fairies	199	(17)
Simon Guy
Index	216