Environmental Politics

Critical Environmental Politics is a radical new introduction to this increasingly significant area. The text combines an accessible introduction to the most important environmental theories and concepts from a broadly critical perspective._x000D_  ..

This book draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. The book illustrates the translation of values into political outcomes through the use, production, and consumption of informat..

Covering the nation-states of China, Japan and South Korea, this book includes an examination of the key island disputes, as well as analysis of the North Korea-South Korea clashes in the Yellow sea, controversies in Japan’s relations with both Koreas and the so-called ‘history disputes’, including ..

This collection critically examines the nature and extent of land grabbing in Southeast Asia, and seeks to locate this phenomena in broader agrarian and environmental transitions (AET). The chapters originally published as a special issue in The Journal of Peasant Studies...

Land has long been neglected in economics. That is now changing. Recently, seven teams from Australia, the European Union, and the USA have, for the first time, included land use in their computable general equilibrium models, the work horses of economic policy analysis. This book describes and crit..

Environment and Politics is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding field, explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making. This book provides a comprehensive introduction, examining a diverse range of environmental problems and policy solutions wit..

This book, based on extensive original research, adopts a multi-disciplinary research approach to examine environmental activism in China, focusing on four cities. It analyses the nature, characteristics, strategies, organizational modes and influence of what could be labeled a Chinese environmental..

One of the most challenging environmental threats to the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the haze, the sickening and deadly cloud of smoky pollution caused by widespread burning of land and forests in Indonesia. This book examines both the threat and resp..

Climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced and changing society to cope with it is its greatest challenge. This realization is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. _x000D_ Environmental Governance considers ‘governance’ in ..

Climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced and changing society to cope with it is its greatest challenge. This realization is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. _x005F_x000D_ Environmental Governance considers ‘governanc..

This book explores how environmental human rights must respond to the key questions of politics, such as the state and sovereignty, equality, recognition and representation, and examines how the competing understandings about these rights are also related to political ideologies...

Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives examines post-1929 US artistic interrogations of environmental disruption. Tracing themes of pollution, marine life, and agricultural production in the work of a number of historically significant writers including John Steinbeck, Ruth Ozeki, and C..