The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty

by Robyn Eckersley

Book Overview

What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state--seeking, she writes, "to navigate between undisciplined political imagination and pessimistic resignation to the status quo." In recent years,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262550563
• ISBN13: 9780262550567
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher