Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice - Softcover

Connelly, James; Smith, Graham; Benson, David; Saunders, Clare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041515068X ISBN 13: 9780415150682

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

This comprehensive new textbook has been designed to cover all aspects of courses on politics and the environment and environmental ethics. Written by experienced teachers of the subject, it introduces students to the key concepts and issues surrounding environmental problems and political solutions. Its starting point is the complex background which inform environmental policies, such as moral beliefs and attitudes towards the environment. It then investigates the people, movements, and organizations that form and implement these policies and explores the impediments to the successful implementation and adoption of environmental policies.
Features and benefits of Politics and the Environment:
* Comprehensive coverage: chapters on environmental philosophy and ideology, environmental movements, collective action, environment and economics, international dimensions, European integration, and national and local responses.
* International case studies: each chapter includes useful sections exploring real life examples of pressing environmental problems such as animal rights, anti-road movements, air pollution, global warming, and many more.
* Further reading: bibliographies including key texts are provided at the end of each chapter.

About this title

Review

'This book is by far and away the best undergraduate introductory textbook yet written on environmental poitics.' - John Barry, Environmental Politics

'..an excellent text which deserves the highest readership.' - Dr Paul S. Ganderton, British Ecological Society

'...this book is not only a student reference book but is also very useful for all those interested in the difficult subject of politics and the environment.' - International Journal of Sustainable Development

About the Author

James Connelly is Professor of Politics at the University of Hull

Graham Smith is Professor of Politics at the University of Southampton

David Benson is a Lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia

Clare Saunders is a Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at the University of Southampton

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041515068X
• ISBN 13: 9780415150682
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352