Table of Contents

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

About the Author

John S. Dryzek is Head of the Social and Political Theory Programme at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.