Bücher der Reihe Environmental Politics

Deliberative Democracy and the Environment makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between democratic and green political theory.

This book argues that current economist theories do not take into account the socially constructed nature of the debate surrounding the environment and environmental policy. It examines whether proposed economic solutions to environmental policy are, in fact, viable in practice.The book demonstrates that social conflicts cause policy compromises, which shape the economic system of a post-industrial ecological society. The author offers an innovative socio-economic theory of environmental politics, which illuminates the transformation dynamics brought about by the ecological crisis.Regulation Theory and Sustainable Development will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, policy and governance.

Until now, local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected in the scientific literature. Drawing on European examples, this book fills the gap by examining the networks amongst actors and organizations which connect local campaigns to the larger environmental movement and political systems.

The book combines a broadly comparative analysis with case studies in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the differences and similarities of Green parties in coalition governments.

Discusses the debates concerning sustainable consumption and the environment. This book examines a range of relevant case studies including: household energy consumption, sustainable welfare, Fair Trade, Oxfam Worldshops, cotton farming and consumer organizations.

Examines the nature of environmental citizenship, and the obstacles and opportunities involved in trying to develop it in liberal capitalist economies. This book also explores the possibility of ethical investment, the social economy and considers whether there is space in the capitalist economy for environmental citizens to 'do the right thing?'.

Examines how China deals with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas. This book shows how environmental policy, politics and governance are core issues posed by China's accelerated economic development.

This ground-breaking book explores the origins, development and contemporary significance of the green movement's ideology. It also indicates how different groups have modified them to respond to contemporary political realities.

This groundbreaking book will be a point of departure for all international relations and political theorists, as well as those involved with environmental policy and philosophy.

Offers a framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability. This book examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance. It considers failures in the framework of global environmental governance, and addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization.

Argues that environmental problems represent a deeper problem in the way the relationship between human beings and nature is conceptualised.

International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. This book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements, and analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored.

Offers a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance. Providing the reader with key insights within this area of global governance, this book focuses on policies developing in relation to climate change, biodiversity and international environmental funding.

The ecological footprint of advanced consumer societies grows larger. This volume examines this paradox in the context of a 'politics of unsustainability'.

This new collection presents an overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought, especially the industrialized nations. Bringing together major research papers since the early 1990s, this book charts a fascinating period in which environmental politics developed from a marginal position in society and the academy, to its current place in the intellectual mainstream.

Provides an ethical critique of approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation. This book details the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that characterize it.

Explores questions concerning the governance of environmental sustainability in a globalizing economy. This book offers a framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability. It examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance.

Examines how trans-national politics is changing the nature of environmentalism through examining both wider theoretical and comparative questions derived from case studies grounded in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and the Middle East.

Explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change. This book provides a case study evaluating US climate politics under the Clinton and Bush administrations.

Stephen Young draws from original research to analyse the theory and practice of ecological modernisation, its nature and the extent of its impact. In so doing he focuses on new attempts to green economies in advanced industrial societies.

"The Politics of GM Food" explains how different, and controversial, outcomes have often occurred over the GM food and crops issue in the US, the UK and the EU. It explores the relationship between science and politics, how these two spheres overlap and how the issue relates to globalization.

Examines the major theories within international relations, and how these can help us understand the emergence of global warming as a political issue.

This new collection presents an overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought, especially the industrialized nations. Bringing together major research papers since the early 1990s, this book charts a fascinating period in which environmental politics developed from a marginal position in society and the academy, to its current place in the intellectual mainstream.

Provides an analysis of international climate change politics as a key issue of modernity and in the context of environmentalism. This book presents a fresh way to understand the climate change problem. It focuses on the international politics surrounding the UN agreement, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol.

Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics.