{"product_id":"ecological-governance-toward-a-new-social-contract-with-the-earth-9781943665150","title":"Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bruce Jennings\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: West Virginia University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: West Virginia University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Global Warming \u0026amp; Climate Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Can liberal democracy, he wonders, respond in time to ecological challenges that require dramatic changes in the way we approach the natural world? Must a more effective governance be less democratic and more autocratic? Or can a new form of grassroots ecological democracy save us from ourselves and the false promises of material consumption run amok?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcological Governance \u003c\/i\u003eis an ethicist's reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people have given political and economic control to elites in exchange for the promise of economic growth. In a new political economy of the future, the terms of the consumptive contract cannot be met without severe ecological damage. We will need a new guiding vision and collective aim, a new social contract of ecological trusteeship and responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45413737234583,"sku":"9781943665150","price":6209.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781943665150.webp?v=1767150887","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ecological-governance-toward-a-new-social-contract-with-the-earth-9781943665150","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}