Environmental Politics

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Geophilosophy of the Mediterranean

Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.

Value, Beauty, and Nature

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World

By Luke Fowler
Subjects: Public Policy

Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.

Wild Diplomacy

Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.

Inside the Green Lobby

A veteran environmental lobbyist reveals the behind-the-scenes struggles to address threats to the future of New York's Adirondack Park.

Material Insurgency

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

Garbage in Popular Culture

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

The Big Thaw

Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.

Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism

Opens up new ways of thinking about and debating the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice.

Walkable Cities

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

Towards Continental Environmental Policy?

Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.

Tales of an Ecotourist

Combining humor and memorable anecdotes, five famous ecotourist destinations offer a breathtaking backdrop to better understanding climate change.

Innovative Congressional Minimum Standards Preemption Statutes

Examines a new type of federal preemption statute popular since 1965 that allows states to retain a certain amount of regulatory discretion, with a focus on environmental statutes.

American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition

Examines the role of politics in the environmental policy making process.

World Politics at the Edge of Chaos

Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics.

Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic

Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.

Energy and Empire

Reveals the role played by political and economic elites in the privileging of civilian commercial nuclear energy over other options, such as solar, in the United States after 1945.

Strong Hearts, Native Lands

Uplifting account of the struggle between the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Canadian logging industry.

Water Pollution Policies and the American States

A fresh perspective on American water pollution policy

Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making

Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.

Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital

Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.

Environmental Integration

A new and original way of looking at the challenge presented by environmental issues.

Comparative Environmental Regulation in the United States and Russia

Explores how policy actors in the United States and Russia have developed flexible incentive-based instruments for environmental protection.

Freshwater Resources and Interstate Cooperation

Examines state cooperation over increasingly scarce water resources.

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

Edited by Harold Coward
Subjects: Sociology

Shows how the major world religions view the environmental problems of over population and excess resource consumption, and how they approach possible solutions.

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. ...