Nature, action and the future :  political thought and the environment / 
edited by Katrina Forrester, Sophie Smith. 
 - New York, NY :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 History, Theory and the Environment; I; II; Part I Time, Nature and the Land; 2 Is There Any Place for Environmental Thinking in Early Modern European Political Thought?; 3 â#x80;#x98;Sustainabilityâ#x80;#x99;, Resources and the Destiny of States in German Cameralist Thought; I. Cameralism: The Ethic of Activist Government; II. Forests: From Proscription to Prescription; III. Power through Knowledge; IV. Sustaining Purposes 4 Abundance and Scarcity in Geological Time, 1784â#x80;#x93;1844I; II; III; 5 Slack; I. Idle Resources; II. The Defence of Idleness; III. Slack; IV. Slack, Corruption and Idleness; V. Decadence and Renewal; VI. Double Time; Part II Science, Agency and the Future; 6 The Nature of Fear and the Fear of Nature from Hobbes to the Hydrogen Bomb; I. The Fear of Nature after the State of Nature; II. The Lisbon Earthquake and Nineteenth-Century Disaster Science; III. Disaster Science in the Twentieth Century; IV. Conclusion; 7 Between Frankfurt and Vienna: Two Traditions of Political Ecology I. The Tale of Two PapersII. Neurath: Socialist Calculation and Ecological Economics; III. Neurath and Hayek; IV. Horkheimer and the Critique of Instrumental Reason; V. The Legacy of an Unresolved Dispute; 8 Uncertainty, Action and Politics: The Problem of Negligibility; I. Preliminaries: Climate Change and the Question of Thresholds; Comparing Climate Change with Voting: Rational Choice Approaches; II. Consequentialist Approaches to the Rationality and Morality of Seemingly Negligible Individual Action; III. Conclusion: The Parameters of Power and Agency 9 What Kind of Problem Is Negligibility?: A Response to Melissa Lane10 Optimism, Pessimism and Fatalism; Afterword: Climate Change in the Light of the Past; Index 
<br/><br/> Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781108196239 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmental protection--Political aspects.<br/>Environmental policy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GE170  / .N388 2018