The Environmental Politics Reader: Debating the Earth

John S. Dryzek was the Head of the Political Science Departments at both Oregon and Melbourne. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He is currently the Head of the Social and Political Theory Program at The Australian National UniversityDavid Schlosberg has taught at Northern Arizona University and the London School of Economics and is currently on sabbatical from the University of Arizona as a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellow at ANU, Canberra.

• PART ONE: FEAST OR FAMINE? THE SEVERITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ; SECTION ONE: LIMITS AND SURVIVALISM ; SECTION TWO: THE PROMETHEAN RESPONSE ; PART TWO: REFORMIST RESPONSES ; 7. RATIONALITY AND THE LOGIC OF THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT ; SECTION FOUR: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY ; PART THREE: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICS ; SECTION FIVE: MARKET LIBERALISM ; SECTION SIX: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ; SECTION SEVEN: ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION ; PART FOUR: GREEN SOCIAL CRITIQUES ; SECTION EIGHT: DEEP ECOLOGY AND BIOREGIONALISM ; SECTION NINE: SOCIAL AND SOCIALIST ECOLOGY ; SECTION TEN: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ; SECTION ELEVEN: SOUTHERN AND INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ; PART FIVE: SOCIETY, THE STATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT ; SECTION ELEVEN: THE GREEN MOVEMENT ; SECTION TWELVE: ECOLOGICAL DEMOCRACY

`The editors should be congratulated on putting together a collection in which every item is worth reading and where the whole is equal to the sum of the parts'Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University.