Seeking Sustainability: On the prospect of an ecological liberalism by G.J. Pato

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This book is born of the need for a critique of current approaches to environmental policy and governance and the search for alternative sustainability frameworks.

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The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations. The renewed interest in climate change and sustainability attests to the lack of progress achieved by the 'sustainable development' regime and to the need for more appropriate frameworks for guiding social organisation toward ecological sustainability. This book is born of the need for a critique of current approaches to environmental policy and governance and the search for alternative sustainability frameworks. Utilising a conceptual approach based on the Polanyian concept of 'embeddedness', this book argues that the links between economic theory, neo-liberalism, and the current regime of sustainable development, have rendered 'sustainability' a discursive frame in the service of economic rather than ecological goals. In rejecting the integrity of 'environmental neo-liberalism', Paton argues there are some clear points of divergence between liberalism and neo-liberalism.She subsequently examines separately the impact on liberalism of efforts to integrate environmental concerns in order to determine if therein lies the potential for an effective reformist politics of 'ecological sustainability'.

Author Biography

University of Sydney, Australia

Table of Contents

Introduction, 1. Ecological Political Economy, Part 1: Theorising Embeddedness for Sustainability, 2. Ecological Sustainability and Embeddedness, 3. Embeddedness in Liberalism and Neo-liberalism, Part 2: Policy and Governance for Sustainability, 4. Changing Discourses of Sustainability, 5. Environmental Neo-liberalism, Part 3: Greening Liberal Theory for Sustainability, 6. The Substantive Roots of Liberalism, 7. Economic Liberalism, 8. Political Liberalism, 9. Social Liberalism, 10. The Sustainability of Liberalism

Details ISBN041556610X Short Title SEEKING SUSTAINABILITY Language English ISBN-10 041556610X ISBN-13 9780415566100 Media Book Format Hardcover Author G.J. Paton Series New Political Economy Year 2010 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 338.927 Publication Date 2010-10-25 Series Number 16 Illustrations black & white illustrations Subtitle On the prospect of an ecological liberalism UK Release Date 2010-10-25 AU Release Date 2010-10-25 NZ Release Date 2010-10-25 Pages 256 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Alternative 9780415750097 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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