Books in the Environmental Politics series

This book argues for ecological justice - that is, for treating species besides Homo sapiens as having a claim in justice to a share of the Earth's resources.

The book combines a broadly comparative analysis with case studies in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the differences and similarities of Green parties in coalition governments.

This ground-breaking book explores the origins, development and contemporary significance of the green movement's ideology. It also indicates how different groups have modified them to respond to contemporary political realities.

This groundbreaking book will be a point of departure for all international relations and political theorists, as well as those involved with environmental policy and philosophy.

Argues that environmental problems represent a deeper problem in the way the relationship between human beings and nature is conceptualised.

Deliberative Democracy and the Environment makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between democratic and green political theory.

Provides an ethical critique of approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation. This book details the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that characterize it.

Explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change. This book provides a case study evaluating US climate politics under the Clinton and Bush administrations.

Provides an analysis of international climate change politics as a key issue of modernity and in the context of environmentalism. This book presents a fresh way to understand the climate change problem. It focuses on the international politics surrounding the UN agreement, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol.

This is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and southern Europe, the US and the global arena.

Examines the major theories within international relations, and how these can help us understand the emergence of global warming as a political issue.

"The Politics of GM Food" explains how different, and controversial, outcomes have often occurred over the GM food and crops issue in the US, the UK and the EU. It explores the relationship between science and politics, how these two spheres overlap and how the issue relates to globalization.

This book argues that current economist theories do not take into account the socially constructed nature of the debate surrounding the environment and environmental policy. It examines whether proposed economic solutions to environmental policy are, in fact, viable in practice.The book demonstrates that social conflicts cause policy compromises, which shape the economic system of a post-industrial ecological society. The author offers an innovative socio-economic theory of environmental politics, which illuminates the transformation dynamics brought about by the ecological crisis.Regulation Theory and Sustainable Development will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, policy and governance.

Stephen Young draws from original research to analyse the theory and practice of ecological modernisation, its nature and the extent of its impact. In so doing he focuses on new attempts to green economies in advanced industrial societies.

Until now, local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected in the scientific literature. Drawing on European examples, this book fills the gap by examining the networks amongst actors and organizations which connect local campaigns to the larger environmental movement and political systems.

This book, by leading scholars of environmental movements, examines how trans-national politics is changing the nature of environmentalism through examining both wider theoretical and comparative questions derived from case studies grounded in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and the Middle East.

The book discusses how to tackle long-term social and ecological problems by using different environmental governance approaches to creating sustainable development. It explores opportunities and requirements for the governance of long-term problems, and examines how to achieve a lasting transformation.

Discusses the debates concerning sustainable consumption and the environment. This book examines a range of case studies including: household energy consumption; sustainable welfare; Fair Trade; Oxfam Worldshops; cotton farming; and, consumer organizations. It is of interest to students and scholars of politics, environment studies and sociology.

This book analyses changes in environmental politics and policy driven by the EU's eastern enlargement, assesses the environmental accomplishments achieved to date, and identifies challenges that remain.

International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. This book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements, and analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored.

International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. This book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements, and analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored.

Provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance and features case studies on the World Bank; OECD; the UN Environment Programme and secretariats to environmental treaties; and hybrid organizations.

Discusses the debates concerning sustainable consumption and the environment. This book examines a range of relevant case studies including: household energy consumption, sustainable welfare, Fair Trade, Oxfam Worldshops, cotton farming and consumer organizations.