This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes of ecological problems than the other Green discourses - such as deep ecology and ecological modernisation theory, and thus has more contributions to make in dealing with the deteriorating ecological crisis throughout the world.

Inhalt
Eco-socialism in an Era of Capitalist Globalisation: Bridging the West and the East.- II.- Marxism and Ecology: Marx's Theory of Labour Process Revisited.- On Contemporary Eco-socialism.- Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview.- Local Community of Eco-politics: Its Potentials and Limitations.- III.- On Consumerism and the 'Logic of Capital'.- The De-growth Utopia: The Incompatibility of De-growth within an Internationalised Market Economy.- Bookchin's Social Ecology and Its Contributions to the Red-Green Movement.- How the Ecological Footprint Is Sex-Gendered.- IV.- Evaluating Japanese Agricultural Policy from an Eco-socialist Perspective.- Alternative Development: Beyond Ecological Communities and Associations.- Conceptualising the Environmentalism in India: Between Social Justice and Deep Ecology.- Growth Economy and Its Ecological Impacts Upon China: An Eco-socialist Analysis.- Conclusions.- Prospects for Eco-socialism.