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Anarchism
It is difficult to provide a commonly accepted definition of anarchism, as there are many different strands of thought and practice that are subsumed under the label. However, in its broadest sense, it is derived from the Greek word anarchia, which means “no rule.” Thus, anarchism is typically taken to refer to stateless societies or social arrangements that lack centralized control of any sort. A green or ecological strand of anarchism exists, putting the focus on a variety of issues related to the environment, technology, and modern social organization. However, ecological or green anarchism is itself fractured into a variety of different viewpoints and agendas.
There are many influential thinkers who argue that anarchism is undergoing a revival, given the decline of Marxian-inspired social arrangements and ...
- Politics and Ecology
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- Acid Rain
- Afforestation
- Anti-Toxics Movement
- Appropriate Technology
- Biodiversity
- Decentralization
- Deforestation
- Domination of Nature
- Endocrine Disrupters
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Management
- Equity
- Future Generations
- Global Climate Change
- Globalization
- Groundwater
- Industrial Revolution
- Innovation, Environmental
- Kuznets Curve
- Limits to Growth
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- Megacities
- Millennium Development Goals
- Nonviolence
- North–South Issues
- Nuclear Politics
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- Precautionary Principle
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- Resource Curse
- Revolving Door
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- Agenda 21
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- Clean Air Act
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- Anarchism
- Basel Convention
- Biophilia
- Capitalism
- Citizen Juries
- Commodification
- Common Property Theory
- Conservation Enclosures
- Conservation Movement
- Consumer Politics
- Convention on Biodiversity
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Death of Environmentalism
- Democratic Party
- Ecocapitalism
- Ecofascism
- Ecosocialism
- Environmental Movement
- Federalism
- Gaia Hypothesis
- Gender
- Governmentality
- Green Discourse
- Green Neoliberalism
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- International Whaling Commission
- Intrinsic Value
- Iron Triangle
- Participatory Democracy
- Petro-Capitalism
- Policy Process
- Political Ideology
- Politics of Scale
- Postmaterialism
- Power
- Pragmatism
- Skeptical Environmentalism
- Steady State Economy
- Transnational Capitalist Class
- UN Conference on Environment and Development
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- Utilitarianism
- Water Politics
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