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The chapter introduces a critique of the political strategy of radical environmentalists. It is introduced by a review of radical literature in environmental policy, the goal of which is to argue how it can be misleading for an effective political action. By applying the four stages approach, the chapter proposes an alternative definition of the conservative and the progressive. Eventually, the intellectual terms of a political alliance are sketched that overcome the traditional political loyalty when dealing with the environmental question.
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In that period I organized several seminars and three International conferences with the cooperation of the United Nations Human Dimension for Global Change Program, the University of Georgia at Athens (Ga.) and the University of Padova (Italy). Scholars such as the economist Kenneth Boulding, the theologians Franz Boekle and Juergen Moltmann, the environmental ethicists Holmes Rolston III and Dale Jamieson, the epistemologist Kristin Shrader-Frechette and the Chinese economist Yu-Shi Mao took part in the program. See Poli and Timmerman (1993), and Ferré and Hartel (1994).
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Poli, C. (2015). Political and Social Changes. In: Environmental Politics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17614-7_6
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