Environmental Politics

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Who Gets What?

Examines the domestic constraints negotiators operate under when nations seek to cooperate.

Cooperating Rivals

Examines cooperation and conflict over water in the Middle East.

The Failures of American and European Climate Policy

Examines why some nations, but not others, have met their commitments to international climate treaties.

Saving Sterling Forest

The story of the twenty-five-year quest to preserve twenty thousand acres of forest in southeastern New York.

Stopping the Plant

Detailed account of the controversy surrounding the building of a coal-fired cement factory in the Hudson Valley.

Protecting Our Environment

Examines how the European Union has handled environmental protection issues.

The Multi-Governance of Water

Examines the politics of transnational water resource management through case studies of the Aral Sea basin and the Danube, Euphrates, and Mekong river basins.

The Politics of Air Pollution

Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.

Ozone Depletion and Climate Change

A path-breaking look at the international response to ozone depletion and climate change.

Contested Nature

Contends that effective biological conservation and social justice must go hand in hand.

Regulating Wetlands Protection

Wetlands are a valuable natural resource, yet over 200,000 acres are destroyed in the United States per year. This book examines whether states should assume the role of protecting wetlands rather than the federal government.

The Environmental Presidency

Examines how the modern presidency has responded to environmental concerns.

Anarchy and the Environment

Argues that the logic of common pool resources is the most appropriate and productive way to understand international environmental conflict, and offers important practical insights into environmental negotiations and bargaining.

Redefining Red and Green

Examines the strategic impact of two European ecology parties on the recomposition of left-wing politics in their countries.

Ecological Resistance Movements

Ecological resistance movements are proliferating around the world. Some are explicitly radical in their ideas and militant in their tactics while others have emerged from a variety of social movements ...

Overcoming Obstacles in Environmental Policymaking

This book examines why policies and laws intended to protect the environment often do not work. In particular, Gamman addresses the fundamental reasons why efforts to protect natural resources in the ...

Environmental Politics in the International Arena

The environmental movement is having a marked impact on national and international politics. This book examines the dominant ethics, attitudes, and moral values behind the international environmental ...

Environmentalism and Political Theory

This book provides the most detailed and comprehensive examination to date of the impact of environmentalism upon contemporary political thought. It sets out to disentangle the various strands of Green ...

The Death of Industrial Civilization

The Death of Industrial Civilization explains how the contemporary ecological crisis within industrial society is caused by the values inherent in unlimited economic growth and competitive materialism. ...