Real green
sustainability after the end of nature
- ISBN: 9781409424093
- Editorial: Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Fecha de la edición: 2012
- Lugar de la edición: Aldershot. Reino Unido
- Colección: Rethinking Political and International Theory
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 192
- Idiomas: Inglés
What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of green politics "Real Green; Sustainability after the End of Nature" offers new answers to the key questions of the environmental debate. In this ground-breaking and challenging work Manuel Arias-Maldonado convincingly argues that, since nature has now been transformed into a part of the human environment, it can be seen to no longer exist. Ecological problems thus become an inevitable and normal feature of our relationship with nature. Hence a post-natural environmentalism, realistic and liberal while remaining green, is advocated. In this framework, sustainability, democracy and liberalism become mutually reinforcing elements rather than conflicting ones. Only by combining them can a green society be realised.
