Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth

As 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...