Stephens / Barry / Dobson Contemporary Environmental Politics

From Margins to Mainstream
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-134-22250-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Environmental Politics

This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics, presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s.

Bringing together the journal's major work, this new 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.

Subdivided into clear sections on political theory, social movements, political economy and policy questions, and assisted by a contextualising introduction, this volume focuses on a set of clear themes:

- the character of green political theory

- relationships with other political traditions and theories

- origins and dynamics of contemporary environmental politics

- differences, similarities and tensions between the North and South

- the relationship of environmentalism to market economics and ecological modernization

- environmental aspects of distributive justice at the local, national and global levels

- the roles, value and valuing of nature in green theory and institutional practice.

As a compilation, this book is unique. It delivers a snapshot of a variety of issues in the field, and is therefore ideally suited to teaching purposes, especially at postgraduate level. In addition, as each section is chronologically arranged, an evolution of related ideas can be clearly seen and appreciated, which builds an excellent understanding of the field of environmental politics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephens, Piers

Barry, John

Dobson, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Section 1:- Theory

Chapter 1: Robert E. Goodin, The High Ground is Green

Chapter 2: Ariel Salleh, Social Ecology and the `Man Question’ Chapter 3: Piers H.G. Stephens, Green Liberalisms: Nature, Agency and the Good

Chapter 4: Robert J. Brulle, Habermas and Green Political Thought: Two Roads Converging

Section Two:- Green Movements

Chapter 5: Stephen Rainbow, Why Did New Zealand and Tasmania Spawn the World’s First Green Parties?

Chapter 6: Eric Laferrière, Environmentalism and the Global Divide

Chapter 7: Ben Seel, Strategies of Resistance at the Pollok Free State Road Protest Camp

Section Three:- Green Political Economy

Chapter 8: Robyn Eckersley, Free Market Environmentalism: Friend or Foe?

Chapter 9: John O’Neill, Public Choice, Institutional Economics, Public Codes

Chapter 10: Peter Christoff, Ecological Modernisation, Ecological Modernitie

Section 4:- Policy

Chapter 11: Andrew Blowers and Pieter LeRoy, Power, Politics and Environmental Inequality

Chapter 12: Joyeeta Gupta, The Global Environmental Facility in its North-South Context

Chapter 13: Markus M.L. Crepez, Explaining National variations of Air Pollution Levels: Political Institutions and their Impact on Environmental Policymaking

Chapter 14: Hugh Ward, Citizens’ Juries and Valuing the Environment: A Proposal

Über Autor(innen)

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.