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7The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making: Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law (edited book)Duke University Press. 2002.In _The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making_ a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of environmental policy. Emphasizing the concept of sustainability and the centrality of moral deliberation to democracy, they examine the possibilities for a wider variety of moral principles to play an active role in defining “good” environmental…Read more
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The Public Space of Environmentalism: Reason, Values, and Legitimacy in Environmental Ethics and PoliticsDissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1995.This thesis takes the contemporary political problem of competing views of the proper relation between humans and the environment and investigates the problem's apparent historical and theoretical roots in Liberal Enlightenment thought. However, this critical analysis reveals that the problem's "origins" are not necessarily some Cartesian "objectification of nature" or "Lockean cornucopianism," as previous analysts have argued. Rather, the analysis portrays a more fundamental dilemma in the way …Read more
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Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New Century (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.In Democracy and the Claims of Nature, the leading thinkers in the fields of environmental, political, and social theory come together to discuss the tensions and sympathies of democratic ideals and environmental values. The prominent contributors reflect upon where we stand in our understanding of the relationship between democracy and the claims of nature. Democracy and the Claims of Nature bridges the gap between the often competing ideals of the two fields, leading to a greater understanding…Read more
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