Frederick H. Buttel, Arthur P. J. Mol, William R. Freudenburg
For a long time in industrialized countries the state occupied a comfortable and unquestioned position in dealing with environmental problems. Since the 1960s we have witnessed the rather smooth institutionalization of environmental tasks in state policies and politics, leading to the emergence of the "environmental state." In the 1980s, the ideologies of deregulation and privatization formed the start of the debate on the environmental state and the 1990s left the debate facing new challenges. First, the debate became broader and more sophisticated, moving away from simple deregulation and...
For a long time in industrialized countries the state occupied a comfortable and unquestioned position in dealing with environmental problems. Since t...
