Political theory and the environment

"The beginning of the new century is a crucial time for environmental political theory. Since the first wave of environmental texts appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s environmentalism has come under a series of challenges, and has begun a process of redeveloping itself in order to meet these challenges. Environmental writers have shown that they can take on questions of distributive justice, democracy, economic efficiency, and other concerns of 'conventional' political theory from an environmental perspective. This book offers a set of important new contributions to this process of reconstruction, including problems of the urban environment, property theory, utopianism, justice, the third world, and direct action."--Jacket.