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The uncertain quest for sustainability: public discourse and the politics of environmentalism

In: Greening Environmental Policy

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  • Douglas Torgerson

    (Trent University)

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Upon entering the public scene, environmentalism disturbed the established discourse of advanced industrial society. While technically focused discourse could usually overwhelm concerns about the morality of dominating nature, doubt about the human ability to dominate nature was more worrisome. The future was dramatically thrown into question, and the doubt proved especially troubling when expressed through the scientistic idiom of technical discourse.

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  • Douglas Torgerson, 1995. "The uncertain quest for sustainability: public discourse and the politics of environmentalism," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank Fischer & Michael Black (ed.), Greening Environmental Policy, chapter 1, pages 3-20, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-08357-9_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-08357-9_1
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    1. Sneddon, Chris & Howarth, Richard B. & Norgaard, Richard B., 2006. "Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 57(2), pages 253-268, May.
    2. Timothy W. Luke, 2005. "Neither sustainable nor development: reconsidering sustainability in development," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(4), pages 228-238.
    3. Marc Dressler, 2023. "Generic strategic profiling of entrepreneurial SMEs – environmentalism as hygiene factor," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 121-150, March.
    4. Meg Holden, 2020. "The Quest for an Adequate Test: Justifying the Sustainable City as an Order of Worth," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-19, June.

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