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

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     - Green party electoral performance: an overview

     - Is there a new politics?

     - The political opportunity structure and green party success

     - Whatever happened to the environment?

     - New challenges

     - Conclusion

• 5 Party politics and the environment
  
  
  • Green parties in parliament
  
  
  • The ‘greening’ of established parties
  
  
  • Explaining party politicisation
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 6 Environmental groups
  
  
  • The environmental movement: an audit
  
  
  • Atypology of environmental groups
  
  
  • The institutionalisation of the environmental movement
  
  
  • The resurgence of grassroots environmentalism?
  
  
  • Anewcivic politics?
  
  
  • The impact of the environmental movement
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 7 The environment as a policy problem PART 3 Environmental policy: achieving a sustainable society
  
  
  • Core characteristics of the environment as a policy problem
  
  
  • The traditional policy paradigm
  
  
  • Political obstacles to change
  
  
  • Achievingpolicychange
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 8 Sustainable development and ecological modernisation
  
  
  • Sustainable development
  
  
  • Ecological modernisation: the practical solution?
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 9 Global environmental politics
  
  
  • The paradox of international co-operation
  
  
  • change treaties Environmental regimes: the ozone and climate
    
    
    • Accounting for regimes
    
    
    • Regime implementation
    
    
    • Global environmental politics and sustainable development
    
    
    • Conclusion
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 10 Globalisation, trade and the environment
  
  
  • Globalisation and the environment
  
  
  • International trade and the environment Contents
  
  
  • The WTO and the environment
  
  
  • North American Free Trade Agreement
  
  
  • The European Union
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 11 Greening government
  
  
  • Integration
  
  
  • Planning
  
  
  • Democracy and participation
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 12 Policy instruments and implementation
  
  
  • Regulation and regulatory styles
  
  
  • Voluntary action
  
  
  • Government expenditure
  
  
  • Market-based instruments
  
  
  • Policy instruments and climate change
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  
  


• 13 Conclusion


• References


• Index


• 1.1Ecological footprint estimates, 1961–2001 page


• 4.1Electoral performance of selected European green parties


• 4.2Green MEPs in the European elections,
  
  
  • environmental policy dimension 5.1German political parties: estimated positions and salience of
  
  
  
  


• 6.1Membership of selected US environmental organisations


• 6.2Membership of selected UK environmental organisations


• 6.3Atypology of non-partisan political organisations


• 6.4Types of impact of environmental pressure groups


• 8.1The ladder of sustainable development: the global focus


• 9.1Some major multilateral environmental treaties


• 9.2Ozone protection – key developments


• 9.3Climate change – key developments
  
  
  • 1.1Evolution of environmental issues page Boxes
  
  
  • 2.1Defining value
  
  
  • 2.2The roots of anthropocentrism
  
  
  • 2.3Atypology of environmental philosophy
  
  
  • 2.4The eight-point platform of deep ecology
  
  
  • 2.5Conservationism and preservationism
  
  
  • 2.6The Great Ape Project
  
  
  • 3.1Survivalism: leviathan or oblivion?
  
  
  • 3.2Population growth
  
  
  • 3.3Bjørn Lomborg:The Skeptical Environmentalist
  
  
  • 3.4Obligations to future generations
  
  
  • 3.5The ‘four pillars’ of green politics
  
  
  • 3.6Greens and technology
  
  
  • 3.7Is non-violence a green principle?
  
  
  • 3.8Defining social justice
  
  
  • 3.9Ecological citizenship
  
  
  
  


• 3.10The technocentric–ecocentric dimension
  
  
  • 4.1New social movements
  
  
  • 4.2Measuring postmaterialism
    
    
    • the difference 4.3NewZealand Greens: proportional representation makes
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 5.1Michels’s theory of oligarchy
  
  
  • 5.2Thefundi--realodivide
  
  
  • 5.3How democratic is the ‘anti-party party’?
  
  
  • 5.4The political programme of the German red–green coalition
  
  
  • 5.5The impact of Ralph Nader
  
  
  • 5.6Environmental partisanship in the USA
  
  
  • 6.1Institutionalisation
    
    
    • campaigning 6.2The changing nature of environmental pressure: solution-led
    
    
    • 6.3Lessons of Brent Spar
    
    
    • 6.4The environmental justice movement
    
    
    • 6.5The repertoire of environmental protest
      
      
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        7. 1The Tragedy of the Commons
        
        
        
        
      
      
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        7. 2Genetically modified food crops and scientific uncertainty
        
        
        
        
      
      
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        7. 3The three dimensions of power
        
        
        
        
      
      
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        7. 4Defining policy change
        
        
        
        
      
      
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        7. 5Downs’s issue attention cycle
        
        
        
        
      
      
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        7. 6GM crops and agenda-setting
        
        
        
        
      
      
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        7. 7Discourse coalitions
        
        
        
        
      
      
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        7. 8German nuclear shutdown?
        
        
        
        
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • 8.1The Brundtland Commission
    
    
    • 8.2Agenda
    
    
    • 8.3World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 (WSSD)
    
    
    • 8.4Core elements of sustainable development
    
    
    • 8.5Equity and the elephant
    
    
    • 8.6Six rules for a precautionary world
      
      
      • modernisation? 8.7Eco-labelling: business fails to embrace ecological
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • 9.1Environmental security: a contested concept
    
    
    • 9.2Regime terminology
    
    
    • 9.3The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
    
    
    • 9.4The Kyoto Protocol
      
      
      • havens’? 10.1Does free trade result in ‘industrial flight’ to ‘pollution
      
      
      • development? 10.2The European Union: from traditional paradigm to sustainable
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 10.3The Europeanisation of environmental policy?
  
  
  • 11.1Forms of integration
  
  
  • 11.2The US Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
  • 11.3Local Agenda 21 in Sweden: a qualified success?
  
  
  • 11.4Headline indicators of sustainable development in the UK
  
  
  • 11.5Opposition to wind power: democracy or NIMBYism?
  
  
  
  


• 12.1Two successful voluntary agreements


• 12.2Market-based instruments


• 12.3Eco-taxes and the double dividend


• 12.4Some successful eco-taxes


• 12.5Tensions in UK energy policy


• 12.6Transport and climate change