Despite the optimism of 1992's "Earth Summit" the politics of environmental sustainable development have reached an impasse. Why do issues of environmental protection continue to take a back seat to economic competition, particularly in the international realm? Living With Nature argues that in order to answer this question we must view the debate about environmental sustainability in terms of the basic cultural and political questions underpinning the dynamics of the environmental crisis.
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- PART I. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION FO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
- 1: Wolfgang Sachs: Sustainable Development and the Crisis of Nature: On the Political Anatomy of an Oxymoron
- 2: Yrjo Haila: The North as/and the Other: Ecology, Domination, Solidarity
- 3: Carolyn Egri: Nature in Spiritual Traditions: Social and Cultural Implications for Environmental Change
- PART II. DISCOURSE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND EXPERTISE
- 4: Josef Keulartz.: Engineering the Environment: The Politics of Nature Development
- 5: Timothy Luke: Eco-managerialism: Environmental Studies as a Power/Knowledge Formation
- 6: Peter Taylor: Mapping Complex Socio-Natural Relationships: Cases from Mexico and Africa
- 7: Michael Thompson: Security and Solidarity: Toward an Anti-Reductionist Framework for the Analysis of Environmental Policy
- PART III. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
- 8: David Harvey: The Environment of Justice
- 9: Douglas Torgerson: Images of Place in Green Politics: The Cultural Mirror of Indigenous Traditions
- 10: Carolyn Merchant: Partnership Ethics and Cultural Discourse: Women and the Earth Summit
