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.
Postmodern Climate Change
1st Edition
By Leigh Glover
February 02, 2011
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 ...
Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance: Ethics, Sustainable Development and International Co-Operation
1st Edition
By Chukwumerije Okereke
September 30, 2010
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 ...
The Environment and International Politics: International Fisheries, Heidegger and Social Method
1st Edition
By Hakan Seckinelgin
December 10, 2009
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 ...
Contemporary Environmental Politics: From Margins to Mainstream
1st Edition
Edited
By Piers Stephens, John Barry, Andrew Dobson
February 27, 2009
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 ...
Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade
1st Edition
Edited
By Edwin Zaccaï
October 02, 2008
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...
The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacob Park, Ken Conca, Matthias Finger
May 14, 2008
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....
Environmental Governance in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Neil Carter, Arthur P.J. Mol
January 25, 2008
This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas. This new book gives special attention to the development of ‘environmental governance’ in contemporary China, especially on the urban industrial ...
Security and Climate Change: International Relations and the Limits of Realism
1st Edition
By Mark Lacy
October 22, 2007
This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change. It presents a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic, commonly overlooked in international relations. The author argues that the realist view rests on ...
The Politics of GM Food: A Comparative Study of the UK, USA and EU
1st Edition
By Dave Toke
October 22, 2007
'Why have GM Foods become so controversial? Comparing GM food politics in the US, Britain, and the European Union, Toke draws on insights from discourse analysis to help explain this basic political struggle of our time. By stressing the interplay between the material and discursive dimensions ...
EU Enlargement and the Environment: Institutional Change and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By JoAnn Carmin, Stacy D. VanDeveer
January 20, 2005
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 ...
Environmental Policy in Europe: The Europeanization of National Environmental Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew J. Jordan, Duncan Liefferink
August 02, 2004
The continuing development of the European Union (EU) is transforming policy and politics in its member countries, and possibly in an even larger number of potential members. This book offers a detailed investigation of the Europeanization of national environmental policy in ten western European ...
Europe, Globalization and Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By John Barry, Brian Baxter, Richard Dunphy
April 09, 2004
This edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development. It will interest students and researchers of environmental policy and European politics....