TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forrester,Katrina
AU  - Smith,Sophie
TI  - Nature, action and the future: political thought and the environment 
SN  - 9781108196239
AV  - GE170 .N388 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Environmental protection
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change
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