📗 Libro en inglés ACCOUNTABILITY, PHILOSOPHY AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and global political problems When a social system has external elements imposed upon it or presented to it political problems are likely to emerge This book demonstrates that what is needed are connecting social elements with a natural affinity to bring people together despite their differences This book is different from others in the field It provides new insights by critiquing the extant understandings of accountability and expands the possibilities by building on Charles Taylor s philosophies Central to the argument of the book are perspectives on authenticity and expressivism which are found to provide a radical reworking of our understanding of being in the world and a starting point for rethinking the way individuals and communities ought to be dealing politically with accountability and ecological crises The argument builds to an accountability perspective that utilises work from interpretivism liberalism and postmodern theory The book will be of interest to researchers in environmental philosophy critical perspectives on accounting corporate governance corporate social reporting and environmental accoun