Avner de-Shalit Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Associate Fellow of Oxford Centre for Philosophy and the Environment, Mansfield, College, University of Oxford.

de-Shalit sets out an explicitly political theory of environmentalism in an accessible style ... thoughtful, committed and engaging book.

• Introduction ; PART I: WHY HASN'T ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY HAD AN IMPACT ON POLICIES? ; 1. The social role of the philosopher and the philosophical role of society ; 2. Where philosophy meets politics: the concept of the environment ; PART II: PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT: FROM META-ETHICS TO POLITICAL THEORY ; 3. Is liberalism environment friendly? ; 4. The community of nature and the nature of community ; 5. Democracy and the environment: a radical theory of participation ; 6. Socialism and the environment. ; Summary: from theory to practice

Avner de-Shalit Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Associate Fellow of Oxford Centre for Philosophy and the Environment, Mansfield, College, University of Oxford.

de-Shalit sets out an explicitly political theory of environmentalism in an accessible style ... thoughtful, committed and engaging book.

• Introduction ; PART I: WHY HASN'T ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY HAD AN IMPACT ON POLICIES? ; 1. The social role of the philosopher and the philosophical role of society ; 2. Where philosophy meets politics: the concept of the environment ; PART II: PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT: FROM META-ETHICS TO POLITICAL THEORY ; 3. Is liberalism environment friendly? ; 4. The community of nature and the nature of community ; 5. Democracy and the environment: a radical theory of participation ; 6. Socialism and the environment. ; Summary: from theory to practice

Avner de-Shalit Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Associate Fellow of Oxford Centre for Philosophy and the Environment, Mansfield, College, University of Oxford.

de-Shalit sets out an explicitly political theory of environmentalism in an accessible style ... thoughtful, committed and engaging book.

• Introduction ; PART I: WHY HASN'T ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY HAD AN IMPACT ON POLICIES? ; 1. The social role of the philosopher and the philosophical role of society ; 2. Where philosophy meets politics: the concept of the environment ; PART II: PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT: FROM META-ETHICS TO POLITICAL THEORY ; 3. Is liberalism environment friendly? ; 4. The community of nature and the nature of community ; 5. Democracy and the environment: a radical theory of participation ; 6. Socialism and the environment. ; Summary: from theory to practice