Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought

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Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction 1. The Ecological Impulse 2. Ecophilosophy 3. Ecofeminism 4. Religion, Spirituality, and the Green Movement 5. Green Critiques of Science and Knowledge 6. Reclaiming Place: Seeking an Authentic Ground for Being 7. Green Political Thought: The Authoritarian and Conservative Traditions 8. Environmental Liberalisms: Green Thought Meets the Dismal Science 9. Green Political Thought: The Socialist Traditions 10. Seeking Homo Ecologicus: Ecology, Democracy, Postmodernism Thoughts by Way of Conclusion: The Tenacity of Environmentalism Bibliography Index

About the Author

Peter Hay, Reader in Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania, is a well known Australian environmental thinker. He was founding convener of the Ecopolitics Association of Australasia and in 1989-90 was Senior Political Advisor to Australia's Minister for Environment and Planning during Tasmania's historic Labor-Green Accord government. His research interests include environmental thought, ecopolitics, the politics of biodiversity, and the cultural, social, economic, and environmental viability of small islands.

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"...a welcome and very timely book. In a single volume Hay... explores the philosophical and intellectual foundations and composition of modern, western environmentalism." -Environment

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