Environmental Politics

An authoritative and easy to use A to Z guide to the key scientific, geographical and socio-political concepts central to the study of climate change. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Taking you through the latest thinking on global warming, environmental damage and risk, this book has everything you..

In this book, Joan Hoffman examines the watershed collaboration from an economic perspective as well as the possibility of alternative means of water protection such as regulation. The case is examined in the light of similar collaborations elsewhere in the world...

Updated in its seventh edition, The Environmental Policy Paradox provides an introduction to the policy-making process in the United States with regard to air, water, land use, agriculture, energy, and waste disposal, while introducing readers to both environmental issues and institutions. The text ..

This book, which has been written by leading experts, offers a critical analysis of the EU leadership role in international climate change politics. It focuses on the main EU institutions, core EU member states and central societal actors (businesses and environmental NGOs). It also contains an exte..

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

_x005F_x000D_ This book fills an important gap in the emerging corpus of research on energy security by offering fresh insights into the rise of China as a global superpower and ways in which its rise is perceived to threaten western energy security...

The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation offers a unique perspective about an understudied aspect of environmental policy, by sharing the stories of the front-line regulators that implement policy on a day-to-day basis in the United States...

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existin..

First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often inform them. Using the context of developing countries, where the effects tend to be more acute due to und..

Today’s beleaguered yet expanding carbon market represents a type of relationship between economy and ecology scarcely imaginable forty years ago. This collection brings together a comprehensive array of perspectives to critically scrutinise the development and on-going maintenance of this global ca..

Today’s beleaguered yet expanding carbon market represents a type of relationship between economy and ecology scarcely imaginable forty years ago. This collection brings together a comprehensive array of perspectives to critically scrutinise the development and on-going maintenance of this global ca..

In this book, an international group of scholars describe the latest climate diplomacy, explore national responses to climate change, analyze implications for economics and security, and propose equitable and just schemes for fostering greater international cooperation in the future...