Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth

Ecological Governance is an ethicist's reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people have given political and economic control to elites in exchange for the promise of economic growth. In a new political economy of the future, the terms of the consumptive contract cannot be met without severe ecological damage--

• | Author: Bruce Jennings
• | Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 194366515X
• | ISBN-13: 9781943665150