Examines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracy
Examines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracy
Sherry Cable is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Tennessee Teaching & Learning Center at the University of Tennessee. She is the author (with Charles Cable) of Environmental Problems/Grassroots Solutions: The Politics of Grassroots Environmental Conflict.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface PART I Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy 1 The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy 2 Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental Policies 3 The Poisoning of the Biosphere: The Petro-dependent Mode of Subsistence PART Il The United States: Prototype Petro-dependent Society 4 Petro-dependent Environmental Policies 5 Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution 6 Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens 7 Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices 8 Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State and Its Institutional and Cultural Reflections PART III Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire 9 International Environmental Policymaking 10 Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate Change 11 Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate State PART IV And So . . . 12 Once There Was a Planet in the Way Galaxy. . . APPENDIX Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities References Index
Preface PART I Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy 1 The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy 2 Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental Policies 3 The Poisoning of the Biosphere: The Petro-dependent Mode of Subsistence PART Il The United States: Prototype Petro-dependent Society 4 Petro-dependent Environmental Policies 5 Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution 6 Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens 7 Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices 8 Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State and Its Institutional and Cultural Reflections PART III Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire 9 International Environmental Policymaking 10 Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate Change 11 Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate State PART IV And So . . . 12 Once There Was a Planet in the Way Galaxy. . . APPENDIX Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities References Index
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