Overview

How can democracy facilitate an effective response to the problem of global warming? Barry Holden discusses this question from two perspectives. First he looks at the suitability in principle of democratic decision-making for generating responses to the problem: to what extent is popular decision making a viable method of dealing with the complex matter of global warming? Second, he looks at the issue of whether, or to what extent, democracy can exist on a supranational scale, since according to received ideas, democracy occurs only within states and has not been thought applicable to the international realm. Emerging ideas and practices of transnational or global democracy have begun to challenge this perception. Holden looks at the role of global democracy in helping to overcome the crucial difficulty of generating, in a world of individual sovereign states, the collective global response that the global warming problem requires.Democracy and Global Warming will engage and challenge readers with interests in democratic political theory and those concerned with environmental issues and threats.

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Author:   Barry Holden
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9780826450708

ISBN 10:   0826450709
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   01 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Popular decision making and global warming 3. Cosmopolitan democracy 4. Cosmopolitan democracy and global warming 5. Realism versus utopianism 6. Conclusions

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Holden examines the impact of global warming on the structure of the international system. Some environmentalists contend that in the light of the complexity and urgency of problems such as global warming.. democracy should be scrapped in favor of authoritarian rule by experts. Taking issue with that view, Holden argues that the answer is not eliminating democracy but extending it beyond the constricting boundaries of the nation-state....Holden envisions an international system that would place global and universal interests ahead of those of individual nations. Recommended. Upper division undergraduates and above Choice Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Choice, April 2003 There can be no question that Holden has produced an important book that makes a significant contribution to the theorization of the political challenge of combating global climate change. Democratization (Frank Cass Publishers) Autumn 2003/Volume 10, No. 3 Holden's careful and complete mode of investigation and argument makes his book accesible to students and researchers alike...I would recommend it to anyone dealing with the varied yet connected issues of global warming, cosmopolitanism, the contemporary state and representation, democracy and globalisation --Sanford Lakoff

There can be no question that Holden has produced an important book that makes a significant contribution to the theorization of the political challenge of combating global climate change. --Democratization (Frank Cass Publishers)Autumn 2003/Volume 10, No. 3

Author Information

Barry Holden lectured in Politics at the University of Reading from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. His publications include The Nature of Democracy (1974); Understanding Liberal Democracy (1988 and 1993) and (as editor) Global Democracy: Key Debates (1999).

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