{"product_id":"ecological-governance-toward-a-new-social-contract-with-the-earth-9781943665181","title":"Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEcological Governance\u003c\/em\u003e is 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.","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043327574359,"sku":"9781943665181","price":17.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781943665181.jpg?v=1750957850","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ecological-governance-toward-a-new-social-contract-with-the-earth-9781943665181","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}