{"product_id":"9781943665174","title":"Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Can liberal democracy, he wonders, respond in time to ecological challenges that require dramatic changes in the way we approach the natural world? Must a more effective governance be less democratic and more autocratic? Or can a new form of grassroots ecological democracy save us from ourselves and the false promises of material consumption run amok?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcological Governance\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethicist’s reckoning with how our political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people have given political and economic control to elites in exchange for the promise of economic growth. In a new political economy of the future, the terms of the consumptive contract cannot be met without severe ecological damage. We will need a new guiding vision and collective aim, a new social contract of ecological trusteeship and responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132022997232,"sku":"9781943665174","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943665174_p0.jpg?v=1763790303","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943665174","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}