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Saward, Michael (2008) Constituting sustainability. The Good Society, 17 (2). pp. 12-17. doi:10.1353/gso.0.0041 ISSN 1538-9731.
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Abstract
It is the year 2019, and the liberal democratic order in country Z has been overthrown by a new radical movement with strong popular support, led and largely defined by the Ecologists.1
The pressures in country Z had been building for some time. The governing and other major parties had paid lip-service to 'the environment' but were not willing to take what growing numbers of increasingly vocal citizens felt were the really tough decisions on energy, nature conservation, transport and waste disposal. Environmental pressure groups gained in membership, prominence, and influence. New media outlets, especially web-based ones, took on the ecological agenda strongly. Key scientific bodies bemoaned, with little internal dissent, the lack of action to protect both the environment and people's right to live in a healthy environment. Media scares that global warming would, much sooner than anyone had foreseen, turn country Z from a temperate into a tropical country were prominent.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Good Society | ||||
Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1538-9731 | ||||
Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 12-17 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1353/gso.0.0041 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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