The governance of unsustainability: Ecology and democracy after the post-democratic turn

Environmental Politics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-36

  Blühdorn, Ingolfur ^a  

^a and International Studies at the University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

governance; politics of simulation; politics of unsustainability; post democracy; post ecologism

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84874125098     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2013.755005     Document Type: Article

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