| Description |
1 online resource (x, 424 pages) |
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American and comparative environmental policy |
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American and comparative environmental policy.
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| Contents |
I. Building Bridges: Comparative Politics and the Environment -- 1. Comparative Environmental Politics in a Global World / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- 2. Bridging Archipelagos: Connecting Comparative Politics and Environmental Politics / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- II. Greening States and Societies -- 3. Greening the State? / James Meadowcroft -- 4. The Globalization of Environmental Concern / Richard York -- III. Nonstate Actors and Social Mobilization -- 5. The Comparative Study of Environmental Movements / Kate O'Neill -- 6. Business-State Relations and the Environment: The Evolving Role of Corporate Social Responsibility / Erika Weinthal -- 7. Political Parties and the "Meaning of Greening" in European Politics / Michael O'Neill -- IV. Institutional Effectiveness across Political Systems -- 8. Democracy and the Environment in Latin America and Eastern Europe / Kathryn Hochstetler -- 9. Institutional Change in Authoritarian Regimes: Water and the State in Egypt / Jeannie Sowers -- 10. Welcome to the Jungle: Policy Theory and Political Instability / Paul F. Steinberg -- V. Comparative Multilevel Governance -- 11. EU Expansion and the Internationalization of Environmental Politics in Central and Eastern Europe / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- 12. Local Institutions and the Governance of Forest Commons / Arun Agrawal -- 13. Federalism, Multilevel Governance, and Climate Change Politics across the Atlantic / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- VI. Future Directions -- 14. Comparative Theory and Environmental Practice: Toward Doubly Engaged Social Science / Stacy D. VanDeveer |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental policy -- United States
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Comparative government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Comparative government.
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Ecology.
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Environmental policy.
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Politics and government
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Umweltpolitik
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Environmental conditions
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United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Steinberg, Paul F.
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VanDeveer, Stacy D.
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| ISBN |
9780262301152 |
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0262301156 |
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1280499427 |
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9781280499425 |
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9786613594655 |
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6613594652 |
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