Contemporary Environmental Politics (eBook, ePUB)

From Margins to Mainstream
Redaktion: Stephens, Piers; Dobson, Andrew; Barry, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134222490
• Artikelnr.: 42640733

Autorenporträt

Piers Stephens is Lecturer at Michigan State University, USA. John Barry is Acting Director at the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen's University Belfast, UK. Andrew Dobson is Professor and Research Coordinator at the Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section 1: Theory 1. The High Ground is Green 2. Social
Ecology and the `Man Question' 3. Green Liberalisms: Nature, Agency and the
Good 4. Habermas and Green Political Thought: Two Roads Converging Section
2: Green Movements 5. Why Did New Zealand and Tasmania Spawn the World's
First Green Parties? 6. Environmentalism and the Global Divide 7.
Strategies of Resistance at the Pollok Free State Road Protest Camp
Section 3: Green Political Economy 8. Free Market Environmentalism: Friend
or Foe? 9. Public Choice, Institutional Economics, Public Codes 10.
Ecological Modernisation, Ecological Modernitie Section 4: Policy 11.
Power, Politics and Environmental Inequality 12. The Global Environmental
Facility in its North-South Context 13. Explaining National Variations of
Air Pollution Levels: Political Institutions and their Impact on
Environmental Policymaking 14. Citizens' Juries and Valuing the
Environment: A Proposal