Environmental Politics
About the Book Series
Over recent years environmental politics has moved from a peripheral interest to a central concern within the discipline of politics. This series aims to reinforce this trend through the publication of books that investigate the nature of contemporary environmental politics and show the centrality of environmental politics to the study of politics per se. The series understands politics in a broad sense and books will focus on mainstream issues such as the policy process and new social movements as well as emerging areas such as cultural politics and political economy. Books in the series will analyse contemporary political practices with regards to the environment and/or explore possible future directions for the ‘greening’ of contemporary politics. The series will be of interest not only to academics and students working in the environmental field, but will also demand to be read within the broader discipline.
The series consists of two strands:
Environmental Politics addresses the needs of students and teachers, and the titles are published in paperback and hardback.
Routledge Research in Environmental Politics presents innovative new research intended for high-level specialist readership. These titles are published in hardback only.
Freedom and Environment: Autonomy, Human Flourishing and the Political Philosophy of Sustainability
1st Edition
By Michael Hannis
April 13, 2017
Must freedom be sacrificed to achieve ecological sustainability - or vice versa? Can we be genuinely free and live in sustainable societies? This book argues that we can, if we recognise and celebrate our ecological embeddedness, rather than seeking to transcend it. But this does not mean freedom ...
Reforming Law and Economy for a Sustainable Earth: Critical Thought for Turbulent Times
1st Edition
By Paul Anderson
April 13, 2017
Few concerns preoccupy contemporary progressive thought as much as the issue of how to achieve a sustainable human society. The problems impeding this goal include those of how to arrest induced global environmental change (GEC), persistent disagreements about the contribution of economic ...
Climate Migration and Security: Securitisation as a Strategy in Climate Change Politics
1st Edition
By Ingrid Boas
March 14, 2017
Climate migration, as an image of people moving due to sea-level rise and increased drought, has been presented as one of the main security risks of global warming. The rationale is that climate change will cause mass movements of climate refugees, causing tensions and even violent conflict. ...
Making Environmental Markets Work: The Varieties of Capitalism in Emerging Economies
1st Edition
By Tabitha M. Benney
November 18, 2016
Perhaps the most defining characteristic of the global economy today is the rise of emerging market economies (EMEs). Many states have experienced rapid economic growth over the past two decades that has led to an increasing share of global wealth. Such dramatic changes are highly relevant because ...
Ideas and Actions in the Green Movement
1st Edition
By Brian Doherty
July 12, 2016
The 'Western' green movement has grown rapidly in the last three decades: green ministers are in government in several European countries, Greenpeace has millions of paying supporters, and green direct action against roads, GM crops, the WTO and neo-liberalism, have become ubiquitous.The author ...
Beyond Borders: Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Doherty, Timothy Doyle
April 27, 2016
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 ...
The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe: The Beginnings of a European Environmental Conscience
1st Edition
By Thomas Hoerber
September 11, 2014
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 ...
Acting Locally: Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Rootes
August 12, 2014
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 ...
A Theory of Ecological Justice
1st Edition
By Brian Baxter
April 24, 2014
In A Theory of Ecological Justice, Baxter argues for ecological justice - that is, for treating species besides homo sapiens as having a claim in justice to a share of the Earth's resources. It explores the nature of justice claims as applied to organisms of various degrees of complexity and ...
International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhüner, Anna Schreyögg
January 16, 2014
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 ...
International Environmental Agreements: An Introduction
1st Edition
Edited
By Steinar Andresen, Elin Boasson, Geir Hønneland
September 10, 2012
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 ...
Russia and the West: Environmental Co-operation and Conflict
1st Edition
By Geir Hønneland
April 14, 2011
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....