Environment and Politics (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts) - Softcover

Doyle, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415825539 ISBN 13: 9780415825535

Verlag: Routledge, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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 within different nations and cultures. The fourth edition has been extensively revised to include new theoretical perspectives and debates surrounding environment and politics. It contains expanded discussion of social environmental movements, the role of the media, environmental security, green welfare and the welfare of future generations. The text also focuses throughout on concepts and debates surrounding environmental citizenship, considering the role of the individual and the local. Greater focus is given to NGOs, environmental justice and governance, as well as gender and the environment. This engaging text has been fully updated to offer readers a greater understanding of international, national and local environmental politics as well as future developments for in both global and region-specific problem solving. The companion website supplements the text with additional resources to aid teaching and learning, including: seminar activities; links to web resources; suggested further reading; a glossary of key terms and tables and figures within the text.

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Timothy Doyle teaches and researches International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia; and he is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University, Western Australia.

Doug McEachern was formerly Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation at the University of Western Australia. Professor McEachern specializes in studies of the role of business in politics through consideration of public policy debate and disputes. His most recent work has been on environmental politics and policy.

Sherilyn MacGregor is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Politics and the Director of the Environmental Studies programme at Keele University, UK. She has taught environmental politics at universities in Canada, the USA, and the UK. She is joint editor of Environmental Politics. Her research focuses on the intersections of feminism and environmentalism and on theories of ecological citizenship.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415825539
• ISBN 13: 9780415825535
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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