Sustainable failures : environmental policy and democracy in a petro-dependent world / Sherry Cable.

Author/creator Cable, Sherry
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
Descriptionx, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The shape of sustainable environmental policy -- Modes of human subsistence, environmental impacts, and environmental policies -- The poisoning of the biosphere : the petro-dependent mode of subsistence -- Petro-dependent environmental polices -- Violations of ecological principles : resource depletion and pollution -- Living in the state of denial : conflict and contamination of workplaces, communities, and citizens -- Broken promises : environmental injustices -- Petro-dependent obstacles to sustainable polices : the corporate state and its institutional and cultural reflections -- International environmental policymaking -- Global environmental problems : overpopulation, peak oil, and climate change -- Sustaining unsustainability : the transnational corporate state -- Once there was a planet in the Milky Way galaxy -- .
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012003240
ISBN9781439908990 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1439908990 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781439909003 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1439909008 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781439909010 (e-book)
ISBN1439909016 (e-book)

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Joyner General Stacks GE170 .C33 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold