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Toward a Culture of Nature: Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in Cuba

Toward a Culture of Nature: Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in Cuba

Stricker, Pamela

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0739120239
ISBN13: 9780739120231
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 1 2007
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.07
Language: English
Toward a Culture of Nature is a comprehensive study of Cuba's environmental policy, specifically the response of the Cuban government to the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent shortage of petroleum products. Pamela Stricker analyzes Cuba's transition to sustainable models of agriculture, efforts toward energy independence using renewable resources, the adoption of green medicine, a framework law on environmental protection, the impact of tourism and foreign investment on the island, incorporation of environmental education, and the crafting of a culture of nature, that is, a Cuban environmental ethics of sustainable development. Going beyond the standard accounts of formal legislation and executive institutions, Professor Stricker pays special attention to the scientists and activists who worked in all capacities (governmental and non-governmental) to bring about change to the environmental policies. Spanning the second half of the twentieth-century, Toward a Culture of Nature is an important case study of environmental policy, ethics, and sustainable development.

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