Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

by Lyle Scruggs

Representing the first comprehensive study of its kind, this book evaluates the comparative performance of national environmental policies since the beginning of the modern environmental era. Unlike other comparative studies, it looks directly at the purpose of environmental policy: pollution reduction. Lyle Scruggs presents four major explanations of environmental performance which it evaluates through the comparative statistical analysis of data from seventeen affluent countries. The results often challenge conventional explanations of good performance.

270 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2003