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UNINA9910786159103321 |
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Rudel Thomas K. |
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Defensive environmentalists and the dynamics of global reform / / Thomas Rudel, Rutgers University [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-139-61105-4 |
1-107-23754-8 |
1-139-60926-2 |
1-139-62593-4 |
1-139-61291-3 |
1-299-40000-0 |
1-139-62221-8 |
1-139-61663-3 |
1-139-34380-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Environmental policy - International cooperation |
Environmental protection - International cooperation |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Meta-narratives of environmental reform; 3. Globalization, tight coupling, and cascading events; 4. Partitioning resources, preserving resources; 5. Advantaging offspring, limiting offspring; 6. Choosing foods, saving soils; 7. Removing rubbish, recovering resources, and creating inequalities; 8. Saving money, conserving energy; 9. Focusing events, altruistic environmentalism, and the environmental movement; 10. A sustainable development state; 11. Conclusion: defensive environmentalists, sustainable development states, and global reform; References. |
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As global environmental changes become increasingly evident and efforts to respond to these changes fall short of expectations, questions about the circumstances that generate environmental |
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reforms become more pressing. Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform answers these questions through a historical analysis of two processes that have contributed to environmental reforms, one in which people become defensive environmentalists concerned about environmental problems close to home and another in which people become altruistic environmentalists intent on alleviating global problems after experiencing catastrophic events such as hurricanes, droughts and fires. These focusing events make reform more urgent and convince people to become altruistic environmentalists. Bolstered by defensive environmentalists, the altruists gain strength in environmental politics and reforms occur. |
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UNINA9910814376603321 |
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Autore |
Donskis Leonidas |
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Fifty letters from the troubled modern world : a philosophical-political diary 2009-2012 / / Leonidas Donskis |
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Nordhausen : , : Bautz, , 2013 |
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1 online resource (205 p.) |
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Political science - Philosophy |
Europe, Eastern Politics and government 21st century |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Titelei; Impressum; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 The Cycle of Abuse, or A Grimace of the New Europe; 2 Trapped by Half-Truths; 3 Unnoticed Fascism; 4 The Miraculous Year 1989, or In Praise of Weakness; 5 European Citizens, or How the Culture of Curiosity Works; 6 Memory Wars; 7 Reason or Treason?; 8 The Tragedy with Fragile Signs of Hope; 9 The Springtime of Our Discontents?; 10 Does the Baltic Region Exist?; 11 The Treason of Intellectuals, or An Identity Crisis?; 12 We are Faster than History, Yet Slower Than a Lifetime; 13 A Lonely Voice of Despair |
14 The Craving for Liberty in the Arab World15 Belgique mon amour...; |
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16 Freedom and Democracy in Decline; 17 Do Old-Fashioned Intellectuals and Politics Have a Future?; 18 The Culture of Fear; 19 The Dissonances of Realpolitik and Human Rights; 20 Postimperialism; 21 A Dangerous Delusion; 22 A New Technocratic Revolution, or the End of Modern Nations?; 23 Where Does Memory Live?; 24 Spenglerian Fallacy and Europe as Mutual Rediscovery; 25 The Individuals by Default; 26 The New Russia with the Worn-Out Leader; 27 Commercialism or a Cult of Brutality and Power?; 28 The End of Modern Politics? |
29 Discursive Handicap of Central and Eastern Europe30 Remembering a Friend of the Baltics; 31 The Blind Leading the Blind?; 32 Democrats and Dictators; 33 The Revolt of Crooks; 34 The Source of Success; 35 Searching for the Europe of Czesław Miłosz; 36 From the Revolution of Dilettantes and to the Managerial Revolution; 37 Human Rights and Multiculturalism in Our Troubled World; 38 Nationalism and Postimperial Syndrome; 39 The Crisis of Liberalism?; 40 Liquid Totalitarianism; 41 The New Class of Political Entertainers; 42 The Ukrainian Perspective on Politics; 43 It Happens Overnight |
44 Is Football just Another Name for Politics?45 When Treachery Becomes Virtue; 46 Criminals in Politics; 47 Is European Culture a Fantasy?; 48 Our Ambiguous New World, or Can We Reverse a Tragedy of the EU?; 49 A Heroic Narrative in Violation of Good Conscience; 50 The Inflation of Genocide; Epilogue; Sketching and Mapping the Moral and Political Sensibilities of Our Time |
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Happy are those epochs that had clear dramas, dreams, and doers of good or evil. Today technology has surpassed politics, the latter having in part become a supplement to technology and threatening to bring the creation of a technological society to completion. This society with its determinist consciousness regards a refusal to participate in the technological innovations and social networks (so indispensable for the exercise of social and political control) as sufficient grounds to remove all those who lag behind in the globalization process (or have disavowed its sanctified idea) to the mar |
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