America's Environmental Legacies

Shaping Policy through Institutions and Culture

Franklin Kalinowski (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

362 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-94897-0 (ISBN)

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This powerful book focuses on the capacity of the American political system to respond to ecological challenges through policy perspectives, the constraints of our written Constitution, and the determination we muster to address these tests of national character. Put simply, this is a book about politics, policy, and political will. Kalinowski brilliantly shows that America’s collective will is found in the cultural values enunciated by the Founding Fathers and passed down through history with modifications. It comprises the essential missing ingredient in determining how we currently respond to crises. Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison had distinct ideas concerning the role that Nature might play in the future. Recognizing the origins and impacts of their environmental legacies is the key to interpreting where American environmental politics is today, how we got here, and where we might be headed.

Franklin Kalinowski has taught at the University of Delaware, USA, Goddard College, USA, St. Lawrence University, USA, Colorado State University, USA, Tulane University, USA, and Warren Wilson College, USA. He received his PhD in Government from Claremont Graduate School, USA. He is the recipient of two excellence-in-teaching awards, and has published over seventeen reviews, articles, and book chapters.

Introduction -- Interpreting America’s Two Constitutions – Looking Through an Environmental LensPart I – Environmental Politics and Our Written ConstitutionChapter One – The Scope and Limits of Mainstream EnvironmentalismChapter Two – Radical Environmentalism – Challenging Our Institutions and BeliefsChapter Three – The Environment and the Constitution – Ecological Principles and Liberal Policy Making
Part II – Cultural Legacies: America’s Unwritten ConstitutionChapter Four – Political Theory and the American Founding – The Tension Between Logic and HistoryChapter Five – The Environmental Legacy of Thomas Jefferson – Cultivating the Rooted CitizenChapter Six – The Environmental Legacy of Alexander Hamilton – Manufacturing Power from Delusion Chapter Seven – The Environmental Legacy of James Madison – Pursuing Stability in a World of Limits
Part III – The Heritage: Environmentalism and the Evolving ConstitutionChapter Eight – The Constitution After 100 Years – Environmental Theory in the Gilded AgeChapter Nine – Living With the Legacies – Our Culture Confronts Our Environment
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Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, color; 1 Illustrations, color; X, 362 p. 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	5812 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Schlagworte	Alexander Hamilton • American environmentalism • American Founding Fathers • american political thought • climate change • Cultural Legacies • Ecological Politics • Environmental politics • James Madison • national politics • political theory • theory of moral sense • Thomas Jefferson • US Constitution
ISBN-10	1-349-94897-7 / 1349948977
ISBN-13	978-1-349-94897-0 / 9781349948970
Zustand	Neuware