Toward a Bioregional State

Toward a Bioregional State
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780595346141
ISBN-13 : 0595346146
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Book Synopsis Toward a Bioregional State by : Mark D. Whitaker

Download or read book Toward a Bioregional State written by Mark D. Whitaker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental sociologist Mark D. Whitaker is a comparative historical researcher on the politics of environmental degradation and sustainability. Toward A Bioregional State is his novel approach to development and to sustainability. He proposes that instead of sustainability being an issue of population scale, managerial economics, or technocratic planning, an overhaul of formal democratic institutions is required. This is because environmental degradation has more to do with the biased interactions of formal institutions and informal corruption. Because of corruption, we have environmental degradation. Current formal democratic institutions of states are forms of informal gatekeeping, and as such, intentionally maintain democracy as ecologically "out of sync". He argues that we are unable to reach sustainability without a host of additional ecological checks and balances. These ecological checks and balances would demote corrupt uses of formal institutions by removing capacities for gatekeeping against democratic feedback. Sustainability is a politics that is already here--only waiting to be formally organized.


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