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THE POLITICS OF UNSUSTAINABILITY

Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits. Whilst the concept figures more prominently in public debate and policy making than ever before, the ecological footprint of advanced liberal consumer societies continues to grow, and the forceful economic development of countries such as China and India reinforces concerns that the world is moving further away from, rather than closer towards the ideal of sustainability.

Given the proven failure of ecological modernisation strategies to secure sustainability, the traditional question How may our established lifestyles and socio-economic practices be made more sustainable? needs to be supplemented by a second, equally important, question: How do advanced modern consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable? Put differently, traditional research into the politics of sustainability needs to be supplemented by a new line of research into the politics of unsustainability. Exploring the recent transformation of eco-political discourses and a variety of ways in which the unfolding paradox of sustaining the unsustainable is being managed, the present volume pioneers this new research agenda.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics

Ingolfur Blhdorn is Reader in Politics and Political Sociology at the University of Bath, UK. His work connects aspects of political sociology, social theory, ecopolitical theory and environmental sociology. He has published widely on social movements, Green Parties and processes of societal modernisation.

Ian Welsh is Reader in Sociology in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences. He has worked on the interface between science, environment and social movements. His most recent work addresses the social and political implications of complexity theory.

Environmental Politics/Routledge Research in Environmental Politics
Edited by Matthew Paterson, University of Ottawa and Graham Smith, University of Southampton

Over recent years environmental politics has moved from a peripheral interest to a central concern within the discipline of politics. This series aims to reinforce this trend through the publication of books that investigate the nature of contemporary environmental politics and show the centrality of environmental politics to the study of politics per se. The series understands politics in a broad sense and books will focus on mainstream issues such as the policy process and new social movements as well as emerging areas such as cultural politics and political economy. Books in the series will analyse contemporary political practices with regards to the environment and/or explore possible future directions for the greening of contemporary politics. The series will be of interest not only to academics and students working in the environmental field, but will also demand to be read within the broader discipline.

The series consists of two strands:

Environmental Politics addresses the needs of students and teachers, and the titles will be published in paperback and hardback. Titles include:

Global Warming and Global Politics
Matthew Paterson

Politics and the Environment
James Connelly & Graham Smith

International Relations Theory and Ecological Thought
Towards Synthesis
Eric Laferrire & Peter Stoett

Planning Sustainability
Edited by Michael Kenny & James Meadowcroft

Deliberative Democracy and the Environment
Graham Smith

EU Enlargement and the Environment
Institutional change and environmental policy in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by JoAnn Carmin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance
Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability
Edited by Jacob Park, Ken Conca and Matthias Finger

Routledge Research in Environmental Politics presents innovative new research intended for high-level specialist readership. These titles are published in hardback only and include:

The Emergence of Ecological Modernisation
Integrating the Environment and the Economy?
Stephen C. Young

Ideas and Actions in the Green Movement
Brian Doherty

Russia and the West
Environmental Cooperation and Conflict
Geir Hnneland

Global Warming and East Asia
The Domestic and International Politics of Climate Change
Edited by Paul G. Harris

Europe, Globalization and Sustainable Development
Edited by John Barry, Brian Baxter and Richard Dunphy

The Politics of GM Food
A Comparative Study of the UK, USA and EU
Dave Toke

Environmental Policy in Europe
The Europeanization of National Environmental Policy
Edited by Andrew Jordan and Duncan Liefferink

A Theory of Ecological Justice
Brian Baxter

Security and Climate Change
International Relations and the Limits of Realism
Mark J. Lacy

The Environment and International Politics
International Fisheries, Heidegger and Social Method
Hakan Seckinelgin

Postmodern Climate Change
Leigh Glover

Contemporary Environmental Politics
From margins to mainstream
Edited by Piers H.G. Stephens, with John Barry and Andrew Dobson

Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade
Edited by Edwin Zacca

Environmental Governance in China
Edited by Neil Carter and Arthur P.J. Mol

Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance
Ethics, Sustainable Development and International Cooperation
Chukwumerije Okereke

Beyond Borders
Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics
Edited by Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle

The Politics of Unsustainability
Eco-Politics in the Post-Ecologist Era
Edited by Ingolfur Blhdorn amd Ian Welsh

THE POLITICS OF
UNSUSTAINABILITY

ECO-POLITICS IN THE
POST-ECOLOGIST ERA

Edited by
Ingolfur Blhdorn and Ian Welsh

First published 2008 by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2008 Taylor & Francis

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Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles, Kings Lynn.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted orreproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 10: 0-415-46620-2 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-415-46620-2 (hbk)

CONTENTS

INGOLFUR BLHDORN & IAN WELSH

LARS KJERULF PETERSEN

JEPPE LSSE

INGOLFUR BLHDORN

JENS NEWIG

SUSAN BAKER

EMMA HUGHES

BRONISLAW SZERSZYNSKI

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