Environmental Policy

ISBN-13: 9780415198851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 240 str.

Jane Roberts

Opis

Environmental Policy explains how the social sciences relate to environmental policy making and how they can be used to achieve policies for a sustainable future. It deals with environmental policy-making at institutional, national and international levels, and emphasizes the solutions, as well as the problems. Within the overall context of sustainable development the book discusses the opportunities and constraints that environmental systems place upon the operation of human systems. It suggests environmental policy is a potential way to modify the operation of human systems so that they function within environmental constraints. Key social scientific concepts (political, social and economic) are used to explain the background for the formulation and implementation of environmental policy. Environmental problems, the role of humans in creating them, sustainable development and how this concept relates to environmental policy are all introduced.

Recenzje

'Undergraduate students will appreciate the clear language, copious tables and figures, the extensive bibliography and index.' - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

'A book that manages to say something new and interesting about environmental policy dilemmas in so many contexts and in such clear terms deserves to be widely read by a new generation of interdisciplinary environmental policy makers.' - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Spis treści

1. So, What's the Problem? 2. The Roots of Environmental Problems 3. Sustainable Development and the Goals of Environmental Policy 4. Science and Technology: Policies and Paradoxes 5. Corporate Environmental Policy 6. The Policy Process 7. Policies for the Planet 8. Economics: Servant or Master? 9. Conclusions

O autorze

Jane Roberts