Toward a Politics of the Planet Earth
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"No one can possibly forsee all the changes in store for individuals, for social classes, for sovereign national communities, and for the world community as a whole. The future will surely bring many surprises. But as we speculate on these matters, the thought keeps recurring that we may just possibly…
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Toward a Politics of the Planet Earth is one of the most important foundational texts in global environmental governance.
The authors recognize the urgency and scope of global environmental problems, and identify their salient properties along with developing a novel holistic approach which reflects the complexity of ecosystems.
They stress the need for scientific knowledge, the challenges to the international system from environmental threats, and the probabilistic nature of human behavior.
They also introduced the concept of an “ecological world view” which has come to inform much of global environmental governance.
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