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Examines the nature of environmental citizenship, and the obstacles and opportunities involved in trying to develop it in liberal capitalist economies. This book also explores the possibility of ethical investment, the social economy and considers whether there is space in the capitalist economy for environmental citizens to 'do the right thing?'.
Examines how China deals with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas. This book shows how environmental policy, politics and governance are core issues posed by China's accelerated economic development.
Offers a framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability. This book examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance. It considers failures in the framework of global environmental governance, and addresses the problematic relationship between sustainability and globalization.
Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics.
This edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development.
Offers a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance. Providing the reader with key insights within this area of global governance, this book focuses on policies developing in relation to climate change, biodiversity and international environmental funding.
This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas. It shows how environmental policy, politics and governance are core issues posed by China's accelerated economic development.
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.
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.
Explores questions concerning the governance of environmental sustainability in a globalizing economy. This book offers a framework on globalization, governance, and sustainability. It examines institutional mechanisms and arrangements to achieve sustainable environmental governance.
The ecological footprint of advanced consumer societies grows larger. This volume examines this paradox in the context of a 'politics of unsustainability'.
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.
Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics.
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.
These papers offer a fresh perspective on the evolving tool-box of environmental policy, such as eco-taxes, tradable permits, voluntary agreements and eco-labels.
These papers offer a fresh perspective on the evolving tool-box of environmental policy, such as eco-taxes, tradable permits, voluntary agreements and eco-labels.
This volume brings together studies on ecological modernization practices around the globe. It assesses the value of the theory for understanding environment-induced transformations, as well as designing future sustainable development paths.
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