Eco-socialism as Politics Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation / [electronic resource] :
edited by Qingzhi Huan.
- XI, 224p. online resource.
Eco-socialism in an Era of Capitalist Globalisation: Bridging the West and the East -- II -- Marxism and Ecology: Marx’s Theory of Labour Process Revisited -- On Contemporary Eco-socialism -- Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview -- Local Community of Eco-politics: Its Potentials and Limitations -- III -- On Consumerism and the ‘Logic of Capital’ -- The De-growth Utopia: The Incompatibility of De-growth within an Internationalised Market Economy -- Bookchin’s Social Ecology and Its Contributions to the Red-Green Movement -- How the Ecological Footprint Is Sex-Gendered -- IV -- Evaluating Japanese Agricultural Policy from an Eco-socialist Perspective -- Alternative Development: Beyond Ecological Communities and Associations -- Conceptualising the Environmentalism in India: Between Social Justice and Deep Ecology -- Growth Economy and Its Ecological Impacts Upon China: An Eco-socialist Analysis -- Conclusions -- Prospects for Eco-socialism.
This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes of ecological problems than the other Green discourses - such as deep ecology and ecological modernisation theory, and thus has more contributions to make in dealing with the deteriorating ecological crisis throughout the world.
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Social sciences. Political science--Philosophy. Regional planning. Environmental law. Sustainable development. Environmental economics. Political science. Social Sciences. Political Science. Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. Sustainable Development. Political Philosophy. Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. Environmental Economics.