Sustainable failures : environmental policy and democracy in a petro-dependent world / Sherry Cable
- Author:
- Cable, Sherry
- Published:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2012
- Physical Description:
- x, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- The shape of sustainable environmental policy -- Modes of human subsistence, environmental impacts, and environmental policies -- The poisoning of the biosphere : the petro-dependent mode of subsistence -- Petro-dependent environmental polices -- Violations of ecological principles : resource depletion and pollution -- Living in the state of denial : conflict and contamination of workplaces, communities, and citizens -- Broken promises : environmental injustices -- Petro-dependent obstacles to sustainable polices : the corporate state and its institutional and cultural reflections -- International environmental policymaking -- Global environmental problems : overpopulation, peak oil, and climate change -- Sustaining unsustainability : the transnational corporate state -- Once there was a planet in the Milky Way galaxy -- .
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781439908990 (cloth : alk. paper)
1439908990 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439909003 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1439909008 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439909010 (e-book)
1439909016 (e-book) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2012
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