decided to do a little trolling this morning:
- Ecologists as the New Management Elite? (Colding) Book Review of Emery Roe's (1998) Taking Complexity Seriously: Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development.
"The objective of this book is to analyze the debate about sustainable development that took place in 1993 in the journal Ecological Applications. This debate was sparked by an article in Science
by Ludwig et al. (1993), who stated, among other things, that plans
founded on claims of sustainability should be "distrusted."... Roe
tries to provide answers to these four questions: What is
sustainable development? Why is it an issue? Ideally, what needs to be
done? What can be done from a practical point of view? When answering
these questions, Roe successively disguises himself as a Girardian
economist, a cultural theorist, a critical theorist, and a local
activist." - Critical Theory as Cartography of G-Local Powers (Braidotti)
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Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective (RJ Brulle)
- Ecology, Imperialism and the Contradictions of Capitalism - conference proceedings (abstracts some links to papers)
- "Bahro's writings are a remarkable alternative, worthy of consideration,
in contrast to an affirmative functional sociology, as well as the
rather resigned variants of Critical Theory." Rudolf Bahro (1935 - 1997) - Scientific outline of his work)
ejrot: Volume 9 No. 1 (December 2005) Special Issue: Theoretical Perspectives on Sustainability
- "This paper is about the critical science approach, stemming from critical theory. Gentzler (1999) provides the following useful distinction - while critical theory refers to the outcome - the improvement of human life - critical science refers to the process we engage in to get the desired result. The critical science approach unites science for observation (evidence) and philosophy for analysis and criticism (reason) (Yoo, 1999), resulting in improved living conditions for the human family." (Critical Science Approach Sue McGregor)
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Whole-School Approaches to Sustainability: An international review of whole-school sustainability programs (ARIES project [pdf])
- Environmental Education - between modern capitalism and postmodern socialism - a reply to Lucie Sauvé (John Huckle) online colloquium
"The model of three interpenetrating spheres outlined in the discussion
paper is a less satisfactory framework for conceptualising
sustainability and EfS, than that advanced by critical theory. It begs
questions about the factors shaping social and environmental relations;
hints at ecological idealism in suggesting we have an 'appropriate
niche'; and fails to collapse the dualism between ecocentrism and
technocentrism."