Rethinking Green Politics Nature, Virtue and Progress [Paperback]

Rethinking Green Politics offers a wide-ranging overview and critical analysis of the theoretical framework that underpins the values, principles and concerns of contemporary green politics and the appropriate institutional means for realizing green ends.

Winner of the PSA Mackenzie Prize for best politics book of 1999.

Rethinking Green Politics offers a wide-ranging overview and critical analysis of the theoretical framework that underpins the values, principles and concerns of contemporary green politics and the appropriate institutional means for realizing green ends.

`Rethinking Green Politics is refreshingly original in its willingness to move away from the stereotyped classifications of green political ideology. It seeks a political theory in which the virtues of citizenship - openness to argument, caution in the use of resources and public spiritness - are invoked to play their part in the task of reconciling humans to nature. Clarity and moderation are all too often in short suppy on these topics, but this book has both' - Albert Weale, University of Essex

`John Barry has cut the Gordian knot of the increasingly sterile debate between anthropocentrists and ecocentrists, and done us the great favour of putting the idea of ecological virtue on the political agenda. This is the kind of book that sets an agenda, and others will follow it' - Andrew Dobson, author of Green Political Thought

`Rethinking Green Politics opens up a debate which had been all but closed down. John Barry successfully challenges attemptlãK