Environment, democracy and community
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The implementation of a green political agenda is likely to be more successful within the framework of a radical democracy. Four key themes necessary for achieving green goals are citizen participation in public discourse, recognizing group differences in seeking for common good, renewing community ties that foster tolerance and moral commitment, and encouraging dialogue to settle political differences. The themes also solve ethical issues in sustainable development, create a balance in green political activities, and carve the role of community in ecological identity.
Publication Name: Environmental Politics
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0964-4016
Year: 1995
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Contested terrains: politics, stories and discourses of sustainability
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'Sustainable development,' popularized by the World Commission on Environment and Development, has become an important topic of discussion in the 1990s for anything that has relevance to the environment. Since the publication of the Brundtland Report, several interpretations have shifted the focus of sustainable development. Such a trend has given rise to competing arguments, which need to be understood in their historical context. Discourses to find ecologically meaningful approaches for a sustainable future need to be encouraged.
Publication Name: Environmental Politics
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0964-4016
Year: 1996
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Explaining the choice of air-pollution control strategies in the United States: some evidence of institutional bias
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The US Congress's tendency to rely upon regulation to check air pollution is unsatisfactory as it ignores the use of economic measures to achieve the goal. Since the 1960s, organizations which advocated regulation as a way of controlling air pollution had a great deal of influence in Congress and made this body biased in favor of regulation. Thinking of institutions as neutral forums where competing groups present their cases is misguided.
Publication Name: Environmental Politics
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0964-4016
Year: 1996
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