A Study In Interests Of Ecological Politics

There are seven chapters in the thesis, focusing on the problems about interests in ecological politics. In Chapter One, the central viewpoint and the basis of the argument is put forward, i.e. the contradictions and conflicts in ecological interests are the origin and primary content of ecological politics. In the following chapters, the author illustrates and analyzes the problems stemming from it one by one, such as: the appearance and development of ecological politics; the subject of ecological politics―man, and the characteristics in his pursuit of interests; the interest relationship between man and man, namely, the forms of expression of the contradictions and conflicts in ecological interests. In Chapter Five and Six, the author digs their root and raises the basic methods to bring the contradictions and conflicts into line. In the end, the proposals about the development of Chinese ecological politics are put forward suggestively.Chapter One: Ecological Politics and Interests. This chapter introduces the basic concept of interests and several other relative important terms, such ad interest subject, interest relationship, interest contradiction and ecological interests. Then the definition of ecological politics is discussed. Two different understandings exist at present: some hold that ecological politics is a study about the relationship between politics and ecological environment; some others argue ecological politics is"political ecology."The author raises a third understanding after analyzing the joint of ecology and politics and the root of ecological politics: problems of whole situation related with ecological environment, a series of political phenomena, behaviors and activities about ecological interests.Chapter Two: Ecological Politics, appearing and developing in interest conflicts. This chapter illustrates the appearance and development of ecological politics in the background of ecological interest conflicts as a phenomenon, a practice and a theory. At first, the emergence of ecological crisis, the direct negative result of ecological interests, leads to the forming of ecological politics. Stimulated by ecological crisis, ecological politics begins its discovery in practice. The Green Thoughts and the Green Movement originated in western countries in sixties and seventies of the last century,...