Debating the Earth provides a complete introduction to the field of environmental politics. It highlights the
diversity of political responses to environmental issues by bringing together forty essential readings in environmental
politics. These readings cover various definitions of environmental crisis, its causes and effects, responses to
it in institutions, politics, policies, community organizing, and lifestyle.
Table of Contents
Introduction, John S. Dryzek and David Schlosberg
PART ONE: FEAST OR FAMINE? THE SEVERITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
Section One: Limits and Survivalism
1. The Limits to Growth, Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William H. Behrens III
2. The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin
3. Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment, Kenneth Arrow et al.
Section Two: The Promethean Response
4. Introduction to the Resourceful Earth, Julian L. Simon and Herman Kahn
5. The Ecorealist Manifesto, Gregg Easterbrook
6. Wise-Use and Environmental Anti-Science, Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
PART TWO: REFORMIST RESPONSES
Section Three: Administrative Rationalism
7. Rationality and the Logic of the National Environmental Policy Act, Robert V. Bartlett
8. The Columbia River Basin: Experimenting with Sustainability, Kai N. Lee
9. Limits of the Administrative Mind: The Problem of Defining Environmental Problems, Douglas Torgerson
Section Four: Liberal Democracy
10. The Allocation and Distribution of Resources, Mark Sagoff
11. Environmental Values for a Sustainable Society: The Democratic Challenge, Robert Paehlke
12. The German Greens: Preparing for Another New Beginning?, Helmut Wiesenthal
13. The American Political Economy II: The Non-Politics of Laissez Faire, William P. Ophuls with A. Stephen Boyan,
Jr.
PART THREE: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICS
Section Five: Market Liberalism
14. Visions of the Environment and Rethinking the Way We Think, Terry L. Anderson and Donald T. Leal
15. Political Pursuit of Private Gain: Environmental Goods, William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons
16. Selling Environmental Indulgences, Robert E. Goodin
Section Six: Sustainable Development
17. From One Earth to One World, World Commission on Environment and Development
18. The Politics of Sustainable Development, William M. Lafferty
19. Sustainable Growth: An Impossibility Theorem, Herman E. Daly
20. Development, Ecology, and Women, Vandana Shiva
Section Seven: Ecological Modernization
21. The Politics of Ecological Modernization, Albert Weale
22. A Global Marshall Plan, Al Gore
23. From Industrial Society to Risk Society, Ulrich Beck
PART FOUR: GREEN SOCIAL CRITIQUES
Section Eight: Deep Ecology and Bioregionalism
24. The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary, Arne Naess
25. Putting the Earth First, Dave Foreman
26. Living by Life: Some Bioregional Theory and Practice, Jim Dodge
27. Ecocentrism Explained and Defended, Robyn Eckersley
28. Introduction to Green Delusions, Martin W. Lewis
Section Nine: Social and Socialist Ecology
29. Society and Ecology, Murray Bookchin
30. Toward an Ecological Feminism and a Feminist Ecology, Ynestra King
31. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Theoretical Introduction, James O'Connor
32. Basic Positions of the Greens, Rudolf Bahro
Section Ten: Environmental Justice
33. Principles of Environmental Justice, First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit
34. Anatomy of Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement, Robert D. Bullard
35. Women of Color on the Front Line, Celene Krauss
PART FIVE: SOCIETY, THE STATE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Section Eleven: The Green Movement
36. Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics, Paul Wapner
37. The Lilliput Strategy: Taking on the Multinationals, Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello
38. Strategies for Green Change, Andrew Dobson
Section Twelve: Ecological Democracy
39. Inequality, Ecojustice, and Ecological Rationality, Val Plumwood
40. Political and Ecological Communication, John S. Dryzek
