Real Green

What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of green politics "Real Green; Sustainability after the End of Nature" offers new answers to the key questions of the environmental debate. In this ground-breaking and challenging work Manuel Arias-Maldonado convincingly argues that, since nature has now been transformed into a part of the human environment, it can be seen to no longer exist. Ecological problems thus become an inevitable and normal feature of our relationship with nature. Hence a post-natural environmentalism, realistic and liberal while remaining green, is advocated. In this framework, sustainability, democracy and liberalism become mutually reinforcing elements rather than conflicting ones. Only by combining them can a green society be realised.

Manuel Arias-Maldonado is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Málaga, Spain. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Berkeley and also developed research in Keele, Oxford, Siena and Munich. He is a regular contributor of Environmental Politics since 2000 and belongs to the Green Politics Standing Group of the European Council for Political Research (ECPR).

Chapter 1 Introduction: An Imaginary Crisis? Reframing Environmentalism; Part I Nature and Society; Chapter 1a Society within Nature; Chapter 2 Nature within Society; Chapter 3 From Nature to Human Environment; Part II Sustainability After the End of Nature; Chapter 4 The Principle of Sustainability; Chapter 5 The Politics of Sustainability; Part III Towards a Green Liberal Society; Chapter 6 Green Politics, Democracy, and Liberalism; Chapter 7 Can We Democratise Sustainability?; Chapter 8 Ecological Citizenship and Sustainability; Chapter 10 Conclusion: The Future of Environmentalism;