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Main Title Transforming the dream : ecologism and the shaping of an alternative American vision /
Author Bednar, Charles Sokol,
Publisher State University of New York Press,
Year Published 2003
OCLC Number 50023533
ISBN 079145715X; 9780791457153; 0791457168; 9780791457160
Subjects Green movement--United States ; Environmental ethics--United States ; Environmental economics--United States ; èOkologie ; USA
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ERAM  GE197.B43 2003 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 09/12/2003
Collation xii, 218 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-213) and index.
Contents Notes
1. Ecological Economics -- 2. Ecological Political Economy -- 3. Ecological Ethics -- 4. Ecological Pedagogy -- 5. Conclusion. "Transforming the Dream challenges American mainstream culture's obsession with unlimited economic and industrial growth. Drawing on works by Roy Morrison, Murray Bookchin, Daniel C. Maguire, Paul Taylor, C. A. Bowers, and others, Bednar critiques the ideological status quo, offering an alternative ecological economics, political economy, ethics, and pedagogy. This new outlook on humankind's relationship to the environment is, he argues, better positioned to address critical issues of the twenty-first century, including the ecological and social limits of economic growth, the social and economic requisites for authentic democracy, the ethics of human interaction with the natural environment, and the educational curricula and practices required to promote ecological literacy. Bednar's perspective provides the opportunity to develop economic and political institutions that permit a sustainable relationship with the environment and offers a socially richer and more fulfilling life for the individual than the "American Dream" promised by the current system."--BOOK JACKET.