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Manuel Arias-Maldonado Receives Book Prize

Spanish Political Science Association Best Book 2012-13

28.02.2014

Former Visiting Fellow Manuel Arias-Maldonado's book Real Green: Sustainability After the End of Nature (Ashgate: London, 2012), which was completed during his stay at the RCC, has been awarded the prize for the Best Book 2012–2013 by the Spanish Political Science Association.

In this ground-breaking and challenging work Arias-Maldonado convincingly argues that, since nature has now been transformed into a part of the human environment, it can be seen to no longer exist. Ecological problems thus become an inevitable and normal feature of our relationship with nature. Hence a post-natural environmentalism, realistic, and liberal while remaining green, is advocated. In this framework, sustainability, democracy, and liberalism become mutually reinforcing elements rather than conflicting ones. Only by combining them can a green society be realized.