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

The environment as a policy problem and an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease provoked a public debate about thenature of intens ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Mainstream political leaders may come to accept that certain powerful environmental groups can no longer be ...

The environment as a policy problem In the 1950s and 1960s, two key factors explained government support for nuclear power. Firs ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Secondly, a range of operational problems has undermined the political case for nuclear energy; in particul ...

The environment as a policy problem taking a hit and its bonds dropping to junk status (Financial Times,10August 2004). Moreover ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 7.8 German nuclear shutdown? The phasing out of nuclear power has always been an article of faith for the G ...

The environment as a policy problem international and domestic obstacles encountered by the German govern- ment in trying to agr ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY undoubtedly represents a radical policy change; in Hall’s taxonomy, it resem- bles third-order change. Neve ...

The environment as a policy problem the dominant ideas and, in turn, sustain and support them (Jordan 1998 : 34). Even where pol ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 7 Heclo ( 1978 )arguedthat the ‘iron triangle’ metaphor was overplayed, and that it is now less applicable ...

Sustainable development 8 and ecological modernisation Contents Sustainable development 208 Spreading the word 208 A complex and ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY environment. Not surprisingly, policymakers the world over, told that they can have their cake and eat it, ...

Sustainable development and ecological modernisation 8.1 The Brundtland Commission The United Nations General Assembly establish ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 8.3 World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 (WSSD) The WSSD was held in Johannesburg in 2002. Its obje ...

Sustainable development and ecological modernisation have brought together representatives from all sections of society – politi ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 8.4 Core elements of sustainable development Sustainable development is a normative concept used to prescri ...

Sustainable development and ecological modernisation democratisation of institutions and a shift away from consumerist lifestyle ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Table 8.1 The ladder of sustainable development: the global focus Model of sustainable development Normativ ...

Sustainable development and ecological modernisation Governance Technology Policy integration Policy tools Civil society–state r ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY time, although it accepts substitution between the various kinds of capital so that the natural resources m ...