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1. The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe

   The Beginnings of a European Environmental Conscience

   By Thomas Hoerber

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   This book examines the development of a European environmental conscience through successive steps of European integration in energy policy. In the 1960s-70s, the world was slowly beginning to realise that environment degradation was not sustainable. With phenomena such as acid rain, it became...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. International Environmental Agreements

   An Introduction

   Edited by Steinar Andresen, Elin Boasson, Geir Hønneland

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. This book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements, and analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored. By...

   Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
3. Regulation Theory and Sustainable Development

   Business Leaders and Ecological Modernisation

   By Corinne Gendron

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   This book argues that current economist theories do not take into account the socially constructed nature of the debate surrounding the environment and environmental policy. It examines whether proposed economic solutions to environmental policy are, in fact, viable in practice. The book...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. Russia and the West

   Environmental Co-operation and Conflict

   By Geir Hønneland

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   Hønneland assesses current environmental discourses and applies this analysis to look at the relations between Russia and the West with regards to environment problems. It includes three in-depth case-studies on environmental problems, living marine resources, nuclear safety and air pollution....

   Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
5. Postmodern Climate Change

   By Leigh Glover

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   A much-needed analysis of international climate change politics as a key issue of modernity and in the context of environmentalism. Leigh Glover presents a new way to understand the climate change problem and is concerned with problems of modernity and postmodernity in the context of...

   Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance

   Ethics, Sustainable Development and International Co-Operation

   By Chukwumerije Okereke

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   This book is an ethical critique of existing approaches to sustainable development and international environmental cooperation, providing a detailed and structured account of the tensions, normative shifts and contradictions that currently characterize it. With specific focus on three...

   Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Environment and International Politics

   International Fisheries, Heidegger and Social Method

   By Hakan Seckinelgin

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   This new study shows how environmental issues represent a deep problem in conceptualising the relationship between human beings and nature. This key relationship grounds the implicit ethical and political concerns of International Relations and our understandings of...

   Published December 9th 2009 by Routledge
8. Contemporary Environmental Politics

   From Margins to Mainstream

   Edited by Piers Stephens, John Barry, Andrew Dobson

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   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...

   Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge
9. International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance

   Edited by Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhüner, Anna Schreyögg

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance. Whilst a growing body of literature considers global governance in a number of policy areas, this volume delivers one of the first comprehensive accounts of international organizations in...

   Published January 26th 2009 by Routledge
10. Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade

    Edited by Edwin Zaccaï

    Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

    This timely volume discusses the debates concerning sustainable consumption and the environment. Sustainable consumption stands as a wide objective that attracts a growing attention within sustainable development policy circles and academic research. The contributors examine a range of interesting...

    Published June 9th 2008 by Routledge