Bücher der Reihe Environmental Politics

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.

These papers offer a fresh perspective on the evolving tool-box of environmental policy, such as eco-taxes, tradable permits, voluntary agreements and eco-labels.