Sustainable failures
environmental policy and democracy in a petro-dependent world
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Author
Publication
2012 - Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Language
English
Word Count
58,000 words, Guess
Page Count
232 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781439908990
- ISBN-139781439909003
- ISBN-139781439909010
- ISBN-101439908990
- ISBN-101439909008
and 8 more
- ISBN-101439909016
- Library of Congress Control Number2012003240
- OCLC Control Number774213733
- Better World Books9781439908990
- Better World Books9781439909003
- Better World Books9781439909010
- Better World BooksP8-CTE-111
- Open LibraryOL25190335M
Classifications
- DDC338.9/27
- LCCGE170 .C33 2012
- LCCGE170.C33 2012
and 1 more
- LCCGE170
Description
Environmental policies fail in conspicuous and egregious ways to sustain the natural resource base and protect citizens from production-generated risky exposures. In her engaging study, Sustainable Failures, Sherry Cable asks, why does environmental policy seem to be a contributing cause rather than a partial solution to environmental problems? Melding a biophysical science perspective of environmental processes with sociological insights into human behaviour, Cable examines the people, policies and issues of petrochemical dependence and broader environment questions. She insists that our present policies around the manufacture and use of petro products violate rudimentary ecological principles-and do so in complicated ways. Sustainable Failures is a blistering wake-up call to what is at stake not only regarding the failure of policy outcomes and grievous natural resource depletion and pollution, but also democracy and ecological survival, and, eventually, potentially, the existence of our species.
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