Book Description
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems.
Author : Paul F. Steinberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262195852
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems.
Author : Paul F. Steinberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262300362
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe? Answering this question requires systematic, cross-national comparisons of political institutions, regulatory styles, and state-society relations. The field of comparative environmental politics approaches this task by bringing the theoretical tools of comparative politics to bear on the substantive concerns of environmental policy. This book outlines a comparative environmental politics framework and applies it to concrete, real-world problems of politics and environmental management. After a comprehensive review of the literature exploring domestic environmental politics around the world, the book provides a sample of major currents within the field, showing how environmental politics intersects with such topics as the greening of the state, the rise of social movements and green parties, European Union expansion, corporate social responsibility, federalism, political instability, management of local commons, and policymaking under democratic and authoritarian regimes. It offers fresh insights into environmental problems ranging from climate change to water scarcity and the disappearance of tropical forests, and it examines actions by state and nonstate actors at levels from the local to the continental. The book will help scholars and policymakers make sense of how environmental issues and politics are connected around the globe, and is ideal for use in upper-level undergraduateand graduate courses.
Author : Jerry McBeath
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2006-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1402047630
This book assesses and compares the political response of nations to the environment. The book explores five major topics: state-society relations; environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs); Green parties and environmental movements; institutions of government and policy-making; variations in the capacities of states to protect the environment; and national responses to global problems. It compares and contrasts rich and poor nations, large and small countries, liberal democracies and authoritarian states.
Author : Jeannie Sowers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0197515037
'The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics' explores some of the most important environmental issues through the lens of comparative politics, including energy, climate change, food, health, urbanization, waste, and sustainability. The chapters delve into more traditional forms of comparative environmental politics (CEP) - the political economy of natural resources and the role of corporations and supply chains - while also showcasing new trends in CEP scholarship, particularly the comparative study of environmental injustice and intersectional inequities.
Author : Lorraine Elliott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136739777
This volume focuses on environmental governance as a key issue of analysis, to provide an important new conceptualisation of 'region' and regional power.
Author : Christopher Mcgrory Klyza
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262525046
An updated investigation of alternate pathways for American environmental policymaking made necessary by legislative gridlock. The “golden era” of American environmental lawmaking in the 1960s and 1970s saw twenty-two pieces of major environmental legislation (including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act) passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed into law by presidents of both parties. But since then partisanship, the dramatic movement of Republicans to the right, and political brinksmanship have led to legislative gridlock on environmental issues. In this book, Christopher Klyza and David Sousa argue that the longstanding legislative stalemate at the national level has forced environmental policymaking onto other pathways. Klyza and Sousa identify and analyze five alternative policy paths, which they illustrate with case studies from 1990 to the present: “appropriations politics” in Congress; executive authority; the role of the courts; “next-generation” collaborative experiments; and policymaking at the state and local levels. This updated edition features a new chapter discussing environmental policy developments from 2006 to 2012, including intensifying partisanship on the environment, the failure of Congress to pass climate legislation, the ramifications of Massachusetts v. EPA, and other Obama administration executive actions (some of which have reversed Bush administration executive actions). Yet, they argue, despite legislative gridlock, the legacy of 1960s and 1970s policies has created an enduring “green state” rooted in statutes, bureaucratic routines, and public expectations.
Author : Harry Verhoeven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0190916680
Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about them.
Author : Kathryn Harrison
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262288877
Comparative case studies and analyses of the influence of domestic politics on countries' climate change policies and Kyoto ratification decisions. Climate change represents a “tragedy of the commons” on a global scale, requiring the cooperation of nations that do not necessarily put the Earth's well-being above their own national interests. And yet international efforts to address global warming have met with some success; the Kyoto Protocol, in which industrialized countries committed to reducing their collective emissions, took effect in 2005 (although without the participation of the United States). Reversing the lens used by previous scholarship on the topic, Global Commons, Domestic Decisions explains international action on climate change from the perspective of countries' domestic politics. In an effort to understand both what progress has been made and why it has been so limited, experts in comparative politics look at the experience of seven jurisdictions in deciding whether or not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and to pursue national climate change mitigation policies. By analyzing the domestic politics and international positions of the United States, Australia, Russia, China, the European Union, Japan, and Canada, the authors demonstrate clearly that decisions about global policies are often made locally, in the context of electoral and political incentives, the normative commitments of policymakers, and domestic political institutions. Using a common analytical framework throughout, the book offers a unique comparison of the domestic political forces within each nation that affect climate change policy and provides insights into why some countries have been able to adopt innovative and aggressive positions on climate change both domestically and internationally.
Author : Neil Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108472303
Revised to include new discussions on climate justice, green political parties, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles.
Author : Nicholas A. Robinson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 9780379012514