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1. Acting Locally

   Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns

   Edited by Christopher Rootes

   Series: Environmental Politics

   Local campaigns are the most persistent and ubiquitous forms of environmental contention. National and transnational mobilisations come and go and the attention they receive from mass media ebbs and flows, but local campaigns persist. The persistence or re-emergence of local campaigns is also a...

   Published April 28th 2008 by Routledge
2. The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance

   Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability

   Edited by Jacob Park, Ken Conca, Matthias Finger

   Series: Environmental Politics

   More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future, we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability....

   Published March 30th 2008 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Unsustainability

   Eco-Politics in the Post-Ecologist Era

   Edited by Ingolfur Bluhdorn, Ian Welsh

   Series: Environmental Politics

   Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits. Whilst the concept figures more prominently in public debate and policy making than ever before, the ecological footprint of advanced liberal consumer societies continues...

   Published March 4th 2008 by Routledge
4. Beyond Borders

   Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics

   Edited by Brian Doherty, Timothy Doyle

   Series: Environmental Politics

   Globalisation is about transnational politics. While nation-state governments increasingly struggle with this new politics, which moves beneath, between and beyond national borders, others entities like transnational corporations have flourished. But it is not just business which increasingly...

   Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge
5. Citizenship, Environment, Economy

   Edited by A. Dobson, A. Valencia

   Series: Environmental Politics

   As governments around the world grapple with the challenge of delivering environmental sustainability, attention has recently focused on the role that citizens should play in meeting the challenge. In advanced industrial countries such as ours, which operate in the political framework of liberal...

   Published November 9th 2005 by Routledge
6. EU Enlargement and the Environment

   Institutional Change and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe

   Edited by JoAnn Carmin, Stacy D. VanDeveer

   Series: Environmental Politics

   This volume focuses attention on key environmental and institutional changes associated with eastern expansion of the European Union, assessing and challenging prevailing views about the outcomes and processes of this historic development. Looking at four central themes -- capacity changes and...

   Published December 15th 2004 by Routledge
7. Deliberative Democracy and the Environment

   By Graham Smith

   Series: Environmental Politics

   Contemporary democracies are frequently criticized for failing to respond adequately to environmental problems and our political institutions are often charged with misrepresenting environmental values in decision-making processes. In this innovative volume, Graham Smith argues that the enhancement...

   Published April 30th 2003 by Routledge
8. Green Parties in National Governments

   By Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Thomas Poguntke

   Series: Environmental Politics

   By the late 1990s Green parties had entered national governments in five Western European countries - Finland, Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. This book aims to provide an understanding of the differences and similarities of Green parties in coalition governments....

   Published April 30th 2002 by Routledge
9. Ecological Modernisation Around the World

   Perspectives and Critical Debates

   Edited by Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld

   Series: Environmental Politics

   The idea of ecological modernisation originated in Western Europe in the 1980s, gaining attention around the world by the late 1990s. At the core of this social scientific and policy-oriented approach is the view that contemporary societies have the capability of dealing with their environmental...

   Published March 31st 2000 by Routledge
10. Environmental Movements

    Local, National and Global

    By Christopher Rootes

    Series: Environmental Politics

    Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at...

    Published September 28th 1999 by Routledge