Political Ecology
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Political Ecology

System Change Not Climate Change

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Political Ecology

System Change Not Climate Change

About this book

"System change not climate change!" This cry reverberated throughout the streets of Paris during 2015's heated COP21 climate negotiations. It was as much a demand as it was an indictment of the failure of existing political institutions to respond adequately to our world's ecological crisis. In an era of slow motion apocalypse, with 3, 500 international environmental agreements to date, where did everything go wrong?In this new and greatly expanded edition of his 1991 classic Political Ecology, Dimitri Roussopoulos delves into the history of environmentalism to explain the failure of the state management of the ecological crisis. He explores civil society's various past responses and the prospects for channeling environmentalist aspirations into political alternatives, emphasizing the ideas of social ecology and the central role of democratic neighborhoods and cities in developing alternatives. Ecologists, Roussopoulos argues, aim further than simply protecting the environment—they call for new communities, new lifestyles, and a new way of doing politics.This US edition also includes a new preface analyzing the implications of Trump's presidency for climate politics and an extensive new conclusion analyzing the Paris Accord. Revised, expanded, and updated, Political Ecology is a classic that provides an essential, timely history of the environmental movement now when we need it most.

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Table of contents

  1. PREFACE 2019
  2. PREFACE
  3. SECTION ONE: The State Management of the Environment
  4. SECTION TWO: Citizens’ Responses to the Plight of the Earth
  5. SECTION THREE: Political Ecology and Social Ecology
  6. SECTION FOUR: A Road Map Beyond Mere Environmentalism
  7. SECTION FIVE: The New Politics of Social Ecology
  8. EPILOGUE 1993
  9. EPILOGUE 2015
  10. POSTSCRIPT: After Paris COP21– What Next? System Change not Climate Change
  11. Notes - Preface 2019
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography