Andrew Dobson

Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one of accommodation. In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Dobson offers a lively and comprehensive commentary on the many facets of environmental politics today. Looking towards the future, he asks whether environmental politics will be comfortably accommodated by mainstream politics, or whether the advent of the Anthropocene - a whole new geological epoch driven by human impact on the environment - will herald a break with the politics of growth that has dominated social life since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Libro incluido en Biblioteca Selecta Forum de Barcelona 2004El sólido y estimulante análisis que hace Andrew Dobson de las estrategias, objetivos e ideas políticas del movimiento verde se ha convertido rapidamente -desde su aparicion en 1990- en un clasico de la materia en cuestion. La presente edicion, elaborada a partir de una puesta al dia basada en los descubrimientos y la bibliografia mas recientes, situa con claridad el ecologismo dentro del campo general de las ideologias politicas, examinando la base filosofica de la politica verde y los problemas teorico-politicos que plantea. Dobson sostiene de forma energica que el ecologismo debe considerarse una ideologia politica distinta y analiza su relacion con otras ideologias, sobre todo el socialismo y el feminismo. Tambien ofrece un estudio de gran amplitud sobre la distincion entre las tradiciones radical y reformista, y extensas consideraciones sobre el cambio social que proponen los verdes y sobre como se podria efectuar. Finalmente, examina la relacion entre las ideas verdes y la democracia, por una parte, y entre las ideas verdes y el Estado, por otra.