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Emily Potter

Emily Potter reviews ‘The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty’ by Robyn Eckersley

February 2005, no. 268 01 February 2005
Robyn Eckersley’s provocative new study  of environmental governance reinvests belief in the  democratic state as a site of ethical action and ecological responsibility. She counters a trend in recent Green thinking to see the state, in particular the liberal democratic state, as the enemy of current and future environmental well-being. Eckersley’s own background is in political scie ... (read more)