Contemporary Environmental Politics: From Margins to Mainstream

ISBN-13: 9780415543385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 300 str.

Piers H. G. Stephens

Opis

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

Spis treści

Introduction  Section 1: Theory  1. The High Ground is Green  2. Social Ecology and the `Man Question’  3. Green Liberalisms: Nature, Agency and the Good  4. Habermas and Green Political Thought: Two Roads Converging  Section 2: Green Movements  5. Why Did New Zealand and Tasmania Spawn the World’s First Green Parties?  6. Environmentalism and the Global Divide  7. Strategies of Resistance at the Pollok Free State Road Protest Camp  Section 3: Green Political Economy  8. Free Market Environmentalism: Friend or Foe?  9. Public Choice, Institutional Economics, Public Codes  10. Ecological Modernisation, Ecological Modernitie  Section 4: Policy  11. Power, Politics and Environmental Inequality  12. The Global Environmental Facility in its North-South Context  13. Explaining National Variations of Air Pollution Levels: Political Institutions and their Impact on Environmental Policymaking  14. Citizens’ Juries and Valuing the Environment: A Proposal

O autorze

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.