Environment and Politics

by Timothy Doyle, Douglas McEachern

Environment and Politics is a concise introduction to the study of environmental politics, explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making. The authors examine a diverse range of environmental problems and policy solutions within different nations and cultures.
This third edition expands the discussion of the differences in environmental politics between liberal democracies, military dictatorships and one party states, drawing on research conducted in Burma, Thailand, China and Iran. Topics covered include:

the connections between green social movements and anti-globalization movements the impact of globalization on NGOs the rise in local environmental governance and international bureaucratic regimes the global role of the World Bank and WTO the case of Kyoto the current phase of US unilateralism and its impact upon the global environment.

This text offers readers a greater understanding of international, national and local environmental politics and looks at future developments for effective local and international environmental diplomacy and both global and region-specific problem solving.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 16, 1998

Reviews

[Morgan Björö · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent introduction to the multidisciplinary field of environmental politics. It describes in a basic manner, filled with concrete examples, how different actors interact within different contexts.
The only aspect, within the interdisciplinary framework, missing is perhaps a lack of philosophical introduction to a variety of political thinking; the post-structuralist ideas could be elaborated with regards to Foucault to better understand the post-structuralist ENGOs.
All-in-all it an extraordinary book for students, activists and other generally interested people, trying to get a good beginning into the politics of the environment.

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very dense but informative.

[Danielnylinnilsson Nylin Nilsson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Does what it claims to do: describes in a basic way who does environmental policy and how it is done.

[Thomas Bray · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great introduction.