PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Making Sense of the Earth's Politics PART II GLOBAL LIMITS AND THEIR DENIAL 2. Looming Tragedy: Survivalism 3. Growth Forever: The Promethan Response PART III SOLVING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS 4. Leave it to the Experts: Administrative Rationalism 5. Leave it to the People: Democratic Pragmatism 6. Leave it to the Market: Economic Rationalism PART IV THE QUEST FOR SUSTAINABILITY 7. Environmentally Benign Growth: Sustainable Development 8. Industrial Society and Beyond PART V GREEN RADICALISM 9. Save the World Through New Consciousness: Green Romanticism 10. Save the World Through New Politics PART VI CONCLUSION 11. Ecological Democracy

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The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses

In this short and deliberately provocative paper I reflect on what seems to be a yawning gulf between the potential contribution of the social sciences and the typically restricted models and conce...

Beyond the ABC: Climate Change Policy and Theories of Social Change:

https://grassrootsinnovations.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/smith-et-al-2005-transtn-governance.pdf

The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions

Livelihoods perspectives have been central to rural development thinking and practice in the past decade But where do such perspectives come from, what are their conceptual roots, and what influences have shaped the way they have emerged? This paper offers an historical review of key moments in debates about rural livelihoods, identifying the tensions, ambiguities and challenges of such approaches A number of core challenges are identified, centred on the need to inject a more thorough-going political analysis into the centre of livelihoods perspectives This will enhance the capacity of livelihoods perspectives to address key lacunae in recent discussions, including questions of knowledge, politics, scale and dynamics

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03066150902820503

Livelihoods perspectives and rural development

https://lowcarbonpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/smith-et-al-2010-innovation-studies-and-sustainability-transitions.pdf

Innovation studies and sustainability transitions: the allure of the multi-level perspective and its challenges

This path-breaking study open the way for a better understanding of the environmental conflict, showing how language can be seen to shape our view of what environmental politics is really about and how those perceptions can differ between countries. The book identifies the emergence and increasing political importance of 'ecological modernization' as a new concept in the language of environmental politics. This concept, which has come to replace the antagonistic debates of the 1970s, stresses the opportunities of environmental policy for modernizing the economy and stimulating the technological innovation. Combining abstract social theory with detailed empirical analysis, the author illustrates the social and political dynamics of ecological modernization in a detailed analysis of the acid rain controversies in Great Britain and the Netherlands. The book concludes by reflecting on the institutional challenge of the environmental politics in the years to come.

http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/234509554.pdf

Maarten A. Hajer

Papers

The politics of environmental discourse