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Green politics draws its ethical stance from a variety of sources, from the values of indigenous peoples, to the ethics of Mahatma Gandhi, Baruch Spinoza, and Jakob von Uexküll. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] These people influenced green thought in their advocacy of long-term seventh generation foresight, and on the personal responsibility of every individual ...
Within green political thought, ecoauthoritarianism is marginal. Ecoauthoritarianism was inspired by The Limits to Growth and its conclusion that there are physical limits to growth and that without dramatic changes in all areas of life, Earth is doomed to become uninhabitable. [ 5 ]
Green politics – political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy. [1] It began taking shape in the western world in the 1970s; since then Green parties have developed and established themselves in many countries across the globe, and ...
In political theory, deliberative democracy has been discussed as a political model more compatible with environmental goals. Deliberative democracy is a system in which informed political equals weigh values, information, and expertise, and debate priorities to make decisions, as opposed to a democracy based on interest aggregation. [30]
She studied at the University of Cambridge, and has a PhD in environmental politics from the University of Tasmania. [1] She was previously a public lawyer, then a lecturer at Monash University until 2001 when she moved to the University of Melbourne. Eckersley was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2007. [2]
The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book, Wadsworth Publishing Company. An International Thomson Publishing Company; Vogel, Steven, 1999. Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature, Environmental Ethics 24 (1):23-39; Weston, 1999. An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy, Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
Green libertarianism is a form of green politics. [1] Alternately, it is a form of libertarianism in which the free market provides environmentally beneficial (or benign) outcomes. [ 2 ] Marcel Wissenburg (2009) maintains that proponents of the latter comprise a minority of green political theorists.
The Global Greens Charter is a document that 800 delegates from the Green parties of 72 countries decided upon a first gathering of the Global Greens in Canberra, Australia in April 2001. [1] The first part contains six guiding principles, whereas the second part specifies what political action should be taken.