环境政治理论的基本视角——对日本几种主要环境政治理论的分析与批判

基于“实在论”和“社会结构主义”的理论视角,日本的环境政治学理论研究,一方面受被曲解的“环境伦理学”影响过大;另一方面,不是受现行的政治环境左右趋向于社会结构主义,就是偏重于对这一政治过程的说明。而实际上最需要的首先是阐明“保护环境”究竟是什么这一基本问题。

A Basic Perspective for the Theory of Environmental Politics: Analyzing and Criticizing the Representative Schools of Environmental Political Theory in Japan

From the theoretical perspectives of realism and social constructionism, the current environmental political theories in Japan are overfed by the distorted ‘environmental ethics’ on the one hand, and are dominated by the social constructionist approach and devoted to a theoretical explanation of the actual political process on the other hand, while the most urgent work for them is to answer the question correctly of “protecting environment”.