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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 state, ecological citizenship, ecological modernisation and the Greens in government and also includes an additional chapter on ‘Globalisation, trade and the environment’. As well as considering a wide variety of examples from around the world, this textbook features a glossary, guides to further study, chapter summaries and critical questions throughout.Content:-
List of figures page
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
1: Introduction
PART 1:- Theory: thinking about the environment
2: Environmental philosophy
Staking out the territory
Holistic perspectives
Moral extensionism
Conclusion: Breaking down the anthropocentric–ecocentric
divide
3: Green political thought
The central ideas of ecologism
Traditional political ideologies and the green challenge
Neither left nor right but in front?
PART 2:- Parties and movements: getting from here to there
4: 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
5: Party politics and the environment
Green parties in parliament
The ‘greening’ of established parties
Explaining party politicisation
Conclusion
6: 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
PART 3:- Environmental policy: achieving a sustainable society
7: 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
8: Sustainable development and ecological modernisation
Sustainable development
Ecological modernisation: the practical solution?
Conclusion
9: 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
10: 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
11: Greening government
Integration
Planning
Democracy and participation
Conclusion
12: Policy instruments and implementation
Regulation and regulatory styles
Voluntary action
Government expenditure
Market-based instruments
Policy instruments and climate change
Conclusion
13: Conclusion
References
Index
Author Details
"NEIL CARTER" is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York. He is co-author of How Organisations Measure Success: The Use of Performance Indicators in Government (with Rudolf Klein and Patricia Day, 1992) and joint editor of the journal Environmental Politics.
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