By John Barry
This assortment considers the ways that eu states and the eu Union can and may handle the demanding situations of sustainable improvement. The authors study the problems of ecu integration and expansion, policy-making and institutional constructions, citizenship and id from an environment-oriented point of view.
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For such thinkers, specifically environmental problems are seen through the lens of their 10 Barry, Baxter and Dunphy effect on human interests. In spite of these differences of perspective from ecologism, one might, as a result of Soborski’s analysis, see the ‘antiglobalization’ movement as being fundamentally a branch of the more general environmental movement, rather than as representing a new phenomenon entirely. Whatever view one takes on this matter, it is clear that both forms of critique pose serious questions about whether any form of sustainability can be achieved within the context of globalization.
The authors conclude that the process of Europeanization has been, for many member states, a ‘hugely unexpected, unpredictable and, at times, chaotic process’ with the states in much less firm control of the integration process than some theorists of that process have claimed. Chris Rootes examines the extent to which the development of the EU as a legislative and policy-making entity, particularly in the field of environmental policy where, as we have just noted, its activities have become extremely important, has stimulated and fostered the creation of an EU – wide environmental movement.
As well as being of importance for our conceptualization of the female, the connection between women and nature is of significance for social movement activity. The female connections with nature, natural rhythms and biological reproduction, it is argued, have allowed women to keep sight, throughout history, of the mutually interdependent relationship that exists between humanity and the natural world (Merchant 1980). Thus women are understood to be in a unique and advantageous position to engage politically, culturally and socially on behalf, and in defence, of nature.
