The Commons in History
Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
$36.19
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2017
Summary
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.The history of the commons-jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use-provides a useful context for current debates over sustainability and how we can act as “good ancestors.” In this book, Derek Wall considers the commons from antiquity to the present day, as an idea, an ecological space, an economic abstraction, and a manag…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534703 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262534703 |
| Author: | Derek Wall |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 11mm |
| Series: | History for a Sustainable Future |
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This is a terrific book. The first book in MIT Press’s History for a Sustainable Future Series and written by English Green Party politician Derek Wall, the Commons in History is aimed less at scholars, I expect, than at a general audience of people who want to change the world by embracing common and collective forms of property.
—Environmental HistoryAbout The Author
Derek Wall
Derek Wall, an English politician and member of the Green Party of England and Wales, is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Among his books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics and The Rise of the Green Left.
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