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Toward a Bioregional State: A Series of Letters About Political Theory and Formal Institutional Design in the Era of Sustainability - Couverture souple

Whitaker, Mark

 
9780595346141: Toward a Bioregional State: A Series of Letters About Political Theory and Formal Institutional Design in the Era of Sustainability
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595346146 ISBN 13 : 9780595346141
Editeur : iUniverse, 2005

Synopsis

Environmental sociologist Mark D. Whitaker is a comparative historical researcher on the politics of environmental degradation and sustainability. Toward A Bioregional State is his novel approach to development and to sustainability. He proposes that instead of sustainability being an issue of population scale, managerial economics, or technocratic planning, an overhaul of formal democratic institutions is required. This is because environmental degradation has more to do with the biased interactions of formal institutions and informal corruption. Because of corruption, we have environmental degradation. Current formal democratic institutions of states are forms of informal gatekeeping, and as such, intentionally maintain democracy as ecologically "out of sync". He argues that we are unable to reach sustainability without a host of additional ecological checks and balances. These ecological checks and balances would demote corrupt uses of formal institutions by removing capacities for gatekeeping against democratic feedback. Sustainability is a politics that is already here-only waiting to be formally organized.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595346146
ISBN 13 
9780595346141
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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