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Shaw, Keith Michael.

Sustainability in the history of liberal thought.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sustainability in the history of liberal thought.
Author:	Shaw, Keith Michael.
Description:	247 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Susan Okin.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3551.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3145532
ISBN:	0496044753

Sustainability in the history of liberal thought.
Shaw, Keith Michael.

Sustainability in the history of liberal thought. - 247 p.

Adviser: Susan Okin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2004.

In "Sustainability and the History of Liberal Thought," I argue that the concept of sustainability, the bedrock of modern environmentalism, developed principally within the confines of the liberal tradition. This claim stands in stark contrast to prevailing green opinion, which holds instead that sustainability is a theoretical reaction to liberal economic avarice. The first half of my project highlights the connections between liberalism and environmentalism, and places them within a historical coevolutionary framework that spans the time of Thomas Hobbes to John Rawls. I argue that as liberalism matured, (beginning with T. R. Malthus but more fully evident in J. S. Mill), its advocates came to understand that Nature circumscribes human progress, and that governing institutions must recognize scarcity as the foundational problem of politics. Mill's stationary state and Rawls' just savings principle were both attempts to articulate humanity's maximum agency horizon while respecting natural limits and the concern for future generations.

ISBN: 0496044753Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Sustainability in the history of liberal thought.
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520 # $a The second half of the dissertation constitutes the beginning of a theory of sustainable liberalism. There I develop the basic structure of a sustainable property regime, which relies on "instrumental" (Millian) rather than "natural" (Lockean) property rights to justify stabilizing critical ecosystem services through a system of publicly monitored wilderness zones. I also sketch the groundwork of a theory of "federal ecology," which attempts to harness the benefits of federalism (both nationally and internationally) for the purposes of sustainability. Since many environmental problems are by definition global, any centralizing argument confronts national boundaries, but any regional solution faces limited ecological efficacy. A theory of federal ecology can help resolve a multitude of "tragedy of the commons" problems pervading modern environmentalism. I conclude by arguing that the practical flexibility of this approach makes it a useful contribution to the project of preserving just human institutions over time.
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