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Politics of the Environment Ideas, Activism, Policy

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ISBN-10: 0521687454

ISBN-13: 9780521687454

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Neil Carter

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The continuous rise in the profile of the environment in politics reflects growing concern that we may be facing a large-scale ecological crisis. The new edition of this highly acclaimed textbook surveys the politics of the environment, providing a comprehensive and comparative introduction to its three components: ideas, activism and policy. Part I explores environmental philosophy and green political thought; Part II considers parties and environmental movements; and Part III analyses policy-making and environmental issues at international, national and local levels. This second edition has been thoroughly updated with new and revised discussions of many topics including the ecological…    
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Book details

List price: $49.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Neil Carter is a Senior Research Fellow in the International Centre for Sport History and Culture. He has published widely in the history of sport, and is the author of The Football Manager: A History (Routledge, 2006).

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
Theory: thinking about the environment
Environmental philosophy
Staking out the territory
Holistic perspectives
Moral extensionism
Conclusion: Breaking down the anthropocentric-ecocentric divide
Green political thought
The central ideas of ecologism
Traditional political ideologies and the green challenge
Neither left nor right but in front?
Parties and movements: getting from here to there
Green parties: the rise of a new politics?
Green party electoral performance: an overview
Is there a new politics?
The political opportunity structure and green party success
Whatever happened to the environment?
New challenges
Conclusion
Party politics and the environment
Green parties in parliament
The 'greening' of established parties
Explaining party politicisation
Conclusion
Environmental groups
The environmental movement: an audit
A typology of environmental groups
The institutionalisation of the environmental movement
The resurgence of grassroots environmentalism?
A new civic politics?
The impact of the environmental movement
Conclusion
Environmental policy: achieving a sustainable society
The environment as a policy problem
Core characteristics of the environment as a policy problem
The traditional policy paradigm
Political obstacles to change
Achieving policy change
Conclusion
Sustainable development and ecological modernisation
Sustainable development
Ecological modernisation: the practical solution?
Conclusion
Global environmental politics
The paradox of international co-operation
Environmental regimes: the ozone and climate change treaties
Accounting for regimes
Regime implementation
Global environmental politics and sustainable development
Conclusion
Globalisation, trade and the environment
Globalisation and the environment
International trade and the environment
The WTO and the environment
North American Free Trade Agreement
The European Union
Conclusion
Greening government
Integration
Planning
Democracy and participation
Conclusion
Policy instruments and implementation
Regulation and regulatory styles
Voluntary action
Government expenditure
Market-based instruments
Policy instruments and climate change
Conclusion
Conclusion
References
Index