1st Edition

Contemporary Environmental Politics From Margins to Mainstream

Edited By Piers Stephens, John Barry, Andrew Dobson Copyright 2006
318 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This new collection from the leading journal,  Environmental Politics ,   presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s. Bringing together the journal's major work, this new book charts a fascinating period in which environmental politics developed from a marginal position in society and the academy, to its... Read more

Introduction

Section 1:- Theory

Chapter 1: Robert E. Goodin, The High Ground is Green

Chapter 2: Ariel Salleh, Social Ecology and the `Man Question’ Chapter 3: Piers H.G. Stephens, Green Liberalisms: Nature, Agency and the Good

Chapter 4: Robert J. Brulle, Habermas and Green Political Thought: Two Roads Converging

Section Two:- Green Movements

Chapter 5: Stephen Rainbow, Why Did New Zealand and Tasmania Spawn the World’s First Green Parties?

Chapter 6: Eric Laferrière, Environmentalism and the Global Divide

Chapter 7: Ben Seel, Strategies of Resistance at the Pollok Free State Road Protest Camp 

Section Three:- Green Political Economy

Chapter 8: Robyn Eckersley, Free Market Environmentalism: Friend or Foe?

Chapter 9: John O’Neill, Public Choice, Institutional Economics, Public Codes

Chapter 10: Peter Christoff, Ecological Modernisation, Ecological Modernitie 

Section 4:- Policy

Chapter 11: Andrew Blowers and Pieter LeRoy, Power, Politics and Environmental Inequality

Chapter 12: Joyeeta Gupta, The Global Environmental Facility in its North-South Context

Chapter 13: Markus M.L. Crepez, Explaining National variations of Air Pollution Levels: Political Institutions and their Impact on Environmental Policymaking

Chapter 14: Hugh Ward, Citizens’ Juries and Valuing the Environment: A Proposal

Biography

Piers Stephens is Lecturer at Michigan State University, USA. John Barry is Acting Director at the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen's University Belfast, UK. Andrew Dobson is Professor and Research Coordinator at the Open University, UK.