Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New CenturyBen A. Minteer, Bob Pepperman Taylor Can democrats be environmentalists? Democracy and the Claims of Nature tackles the core questions raised by the intersection of our democratic and environmental commitments, including the conceptual and practical connections between democratic theory and environmental ethics, the potential for an environmentally defined democratic citizenship, the concerns of equity and justice in environmental discourse and policy making, and the shape and future of democratic environmental movements. The prominent contributors-philosophers, political theorists, and social scientists-engage both the complexities and the possibilities of a robustly democratic environmentalism, and each offers their own unique insights into the particular challenges that flow from the intermingling of environmental ethics and politics. Taken together, the essays provide an indispensable multidisciplinary analysis of the ways in which our loyalties to democracy and the environment confront and mutually reinforce one another in theory and practice. Democracy and the Claims of Nature will be of great interest not only to students and educators in environmental studies, American political thought, and democratic theory, but to environmental professionals and citizens concerned about the health of both our democratic ideas and institutions and the environment in the 21st Century. |
Contents
Democracy and Environmentalism FOUNDATIONS AND JUSTIFICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY | 11 |
Deweyan Democracy and Environmental Ethics | 33 |
Environmental Pragmatism Ecocentrism and Deliberative Democracy BETWEEN PROBLEMSOLVING AND FUNDAMENTAL CRITIQUE | 49 |
The Legitimacy Crisis in Environmental Ethics and Politics | 71 |
Science Value and Ethics A HIERARCHICAL THEORY | 91 |
ENVIRONMENTALISM AND DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP | 115 |
Opinionated Natures TOWARD A GREEN PUBLIC CULTURE | 117 |
Vulnerability and Virtue DEMOCRACY DEPENDENCY AND ECOLOGICAL STEWARDSHIP | 133 |
Environmentalist Democracy and the Cultural Politics of Nature in Monte Verde Costa Rica | 215 |
Environmental Rights as Democratic Rights | 237 |
Deliberative Democracy and Environmental Policy | 257 |
DEMOCRACY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS | 277 |
Cycles of Closure in Environmental Politics and Policy | 279 |
The People Politics and the Planet WHO KNOWS PROTECTS AND SERVES NATURE BEST? | 301 |
Linking Movements and Constructing a New Vision ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY | 321 |
Civic Environmentalism | 335 |
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