The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd Edition

The environment as a policy problem ◗ Complexity and uncertainty Policymaking may be hampered by the complexity and uncertainty ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 7.2 Genetically modified food crops and scientific uncertainty A GMO is ‘any organism that has had its gene ...

The environment as a policy problem (see Box3.8), with ecocentrics opting for caution and technocentrics being more likely to as ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY governments is to balance competing interests, but this raises important issues of equity and social justic ...

The environment as a policy problem theremaining two characteristics reflect the institutional structures and policymaking proce ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY environment in advanced industrialised nations worsened through the 1970s with a general deterioration in k ...

The environment as a policy problem sectors it regularly consults and seeks the co-operation of business groups (Truman 1951 ). ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 7.3 The three dimensions of power First dimension Ahas power overBto the extent thatAcan get Bto do somethi ...

The environment as a policy problem assume responsibility for creating the conditions under which business can make profits. In ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY governments do overrule producer objections, as illustrated by the raft of environmental regulations introd ...

The environment as a policy problem further entrenches the structural power of producer groups over many areas of environmental ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY The empirical evidence supporting the widespread existence of closed policy communities is strongest in Bri ...

The environment as a policy problem intensive farming methods. Livestock production, wherever possible, has maximised the use of ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY is forced to address an environmental issue, the major actors will seek solu- tions that require no questio ...

The environment as a policy problem 7.4 Defining policy change Hall ( 1993 ) outlines a three-level taxonomy of policy change: F ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY peak periods in the attention cycle, implying that governments do respond to public concern (Peters and Hog ...

The environment as a policy problem 7.6 GM crops and agenda-setting During the 1980s and 1990s the rapid commercialisation of GM ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 1960s, growing awareness of the dangers of some of these pesticides, stimu- lated by a series of food scare ...

The environment as a policy problem 7.7 Discourse coalitions Several writers on the environment have applied discourse analysis ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY be less applicable in countries where conflict is less open, as in the ́etatist French system, or where clo ...