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Sustainable Failures : Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World

By Sherry , Cable

Book information

Publisher
Temple University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781439909010
LCC
GE170; GE170.C33 2012
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
719 kB (736281 bytes)
Pages
243\243
Topic
Business Management
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-07-14 13:51:47
Environmental policy protection Social aspects Ind

Description

Environmental policies fail in conspicuous and egregious ways to sustain the natural resource base and protect citizens from production-generated risky exposures. In her engaging study, Sustainable Failures, Sherry Cable asks, why does environmental policy seem to be a contributing cause rather than a partial solution to environmental problems? Melding a biophysical science perspective of environmental processes with sociological insights into human behavior, Cable examines the people, policies, and issues of petrochemical dependence and broader environment questions. She insists that our present policies around the manufacture and use of petroleum products violate rudimentary ecological principles—and do so in complicated ways. Sustainable Failures is a blistering wake-up call to what is at stake not only regarding the failure of policy outcomes and grievous natural resource depletion and pollution, but also concerning democracy and ecological survival, and eventually, potentially, the existence of our species.

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