Overview
- Investigates the ability of the US to solve environmental challenges through political activity
- Critically analyzes environmental history, political theory, and contemporary politics around the central theme of American's relationship to the Earth
- Combines environmental politics with constitutional interpretation through interdisciplinary methods
- Presents a deeply researched and well-written work on American politics and the ecological situation, representing 10 years of study
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Environmental Politics and Our Written Constitution
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Cultural Legacies: America’s Unwritten Constitution
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The Heritage: Environmentalism and the Evolving Constitution
Keywords
- Environmental Politics
- Ecological Politics
- National Politics
- US Constitution
- Cultural Legacies
- climate change
- American environmentalism
- Thomas Jefferson
- Alexander Hamilton
- James Madison
- American Founding Fathers
- theory of moral sense
- political theory
- American political thought
- us politics
- Climate change management
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Reviews
"A necessary book that clarifies the American approach to environmental politics better than anything I've read. Well-written, insightful, and essential reading." – David W. Orr, Counselor to the President, Oberlin College, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: America's Environmental Legacies
Book Subtitle: Shaping Policy through Institutions and Culture
Authors: Franklin Kalinowski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94898-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95670-8Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-94898-7Published: 16 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 362
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: US Politics, Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Climate Change Management and Policy, Climate Change, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice