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Researching On Contemporary Western Thoughts Of Eco-Democracy

Posted on:2017-01-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Q LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1316330485954945Subject:Political Theory
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"Ecology" was originally a biological concept, "democracy" is typically a political concept. Seen from the surface, there is no direct link between ecology and democracy. If we scrutinize on the phenomenon of environmental decision-making and governance act in the mid-industry, we find that the ecological nature and democracy issues are closely linked. In fact, everyday there are no grass-roots participation in the democratic life of urban and rural environmental pollution problems caused by government policy. As the result of political corruption scores of problem rendered,such as types of forests cut-down problems, the wanton development of rural land issues, the rapid reduction of cultivated land of farmers, crop composition of wanton pollution, industrial waste gas row issue, civil disorder of the depth of water pollution, waste residue accumulation, excessive vehicle exhaust released by traffic jam, public health worsening, and so on. Generally said, it is the political anti-ecological actions that led our own biological properties and survival environment gambling predicament. As an interdisciplinary ecology and political science, ecological thoughts of democratic attempts to go building an entirely new operating mechanism of ecological democracy beyond the traditional "liberal democratic paradigm".This paper is divided into front and five chapters, each section as follows.Preface discusses the contemporary western ecological research on democratic ideas based on environmental significance, framework and structure of the essay, required researching methods, the major innovations of discussion. In the last part of the frontier, this paper first defines the basic concepts of this study, because there is no reasonable definition there is no scientific study. This paper first defines the core concepts of "ecology", "democracy" and "western", and then qualified the sub-concepts of "democratism" and "ecological democratism", finally defined the main scope of ecological democracy study,so as to progress the follow-up researching of this essay based on the fundamental c categories. The first chapter of this project demonstrates the contemporary western ecological and social conditions of democratic ideas. Articles pointed out that:it is the fundmental factors that renders the origination of the thoughts of contemporary western ecological democratic.Anti-ecological tendency of development of Soviet socialist democratic transition is the outer comparing factors that caused environmental disasters (regardless of capitalism democracy or socialist democracy there are exist arrogation to people's ecological democratic right). The "Green-party movement" originated from the 1960 of the 20th century is an organization promotion reasons.The eco-political movement starting in the late 20th century is the main political motivation. Article particular emphasis, as the prevalent social trends since the mid-20th century, contemporary western democratic ideas had political, economic, social, cultural and legal factors contributed to the analysis.Chapter two of this study demonstrates the theory of contemporary western democratic ideas. It pointed out that contemporary western ecological democratic thought inherited the main idea of ecology Marx im doctrine theory and ecological socialism,in widely absorbed green political theory and ecological government theory.The researching always related Geo-ecology theory,national ecological theory, natural environment ethics thought and international political ecological theory.The dissertation proposed any creative eco-democratic theroies.Chapter three of this topic discusses the main elements of contemporary western democratic ideas.The article pointed out that global ecological environment of diversification variation in political performance is the main power alienation phenomenon led to of centralization type democracy.The main idea of eco-democracy in economic sphere is the dictatorship of market monopoly.The main idea of eco-democracy in culture sphere is the decadent situation of humanities environment. The main idea of eco-democracy in social sphere is the breeding of various environment disputes event. The main idea of eco-democracy in law sphere is the legal unfair logic extended on every event.The main idea of eco-democracy in military sphere is the double dating pattern happened in army belief and natural interests.Adapting to contemporary western democratic ideas this essay include the following aspects:the contemporary western ecological view of political democracy, economic, cultural centers, social values, the rule of law, military concept.The fourth chapter of this study discusses the main schools of modern western democratic ideas. The article points out that contemporary western democratic ideas are made on the basis of capitalist deeply animadvert which essentially belong to capital class of democratic ideas. Contemporary western ecological democratism who advocates from ecology perspective would reconsider capitalism party system, and Parliament system, and separation of powers system, and national autonomy system, and military system, and election system, and religious belief system.The anti-ecology tendencies of capitalist democratic management system is mainly supplied in following aspects:democratic decision system,democratic supervision system of anti-ecological of operation, Above sectors eventually led to global ecological environment risk. In summary, ecological democracy issues in international academic research can be divided into five major schools of deliberative democracy school, risk-oriented school, school of global democracy, inclusive democratic school and gender democracy school. The fifth chapter of this project demonstrate the value of contemporary western ecology studying,including ideas and practical significance and its enlightenment to China. The essay points out that the study of contemporary western democratic ideas can not only promote the construction of eco-political science discipline system,but also can provide the scientific references for the relevant government departments, such as environmental protection departments, governmental ecological policy researching department, territorial planning department, agriculture sectors, and so on. Objectively speaking, the study of contemporary western democratic ideas can not only promote mining and finishing to ancient Chinese ecological democratic ideas, but also to enlarge the origin and development of ecological democratic ideas in the current context. All in all, researching on contemporary western ecological democracy will help the construction of contemporary socialist democratic politics in China.
Keywords/Search Tags:contemporary western sphere, ecological democracy, thought researching
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