TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter, Neil
TI  - Politics of the environment : ideas, activism, policy
SN  - 0521687454
U1  - 333.715 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge Uni. Press
N1  - CONTENTS: List of figures  x List of tables  xi List of boxes  xii Preface to the second edition  xiv Acknowledgements  xv Abbreviations  xvi Glossary  xviii 1.  Introduction  1 PART 1 Theory : thinking about the environment  11 2.  Environmental philosophy  13 Staking out the territory  14 Holistic perspectives  19 Moral extensionism  26 Conclusion : Breaking down the anthropocentric-ecocentric divide  35 3.  Green political thought  41 The central ideas of ecologism  42 Traditional political ideologies and the green challenge  66 Neither left nor right but in front?  76 PART 2 Parties and movements : getting from here to there  83 4.  Green parties : the rise of a new politics?    87 Green party electoral performance : an overview  88 Is there a new politics?  91 The political opportunity structure and green party success  99 Whatever happened to the environment?  109 New challenges  110 Conclusion  112 5.  Party politics and the environment  115 Green parties in parliament  116 The 'greening' of established parties  127 Explaining party politicisation  138 Conclusion  140 6.  Environmental groups  143 The environmental movement : an audit  144 A typology of environmental groups  146 The institutionalisation of the environmental movement  148 The resurgence of grassroots environmentalism?  155 A new civic politics?  160 The impact of the environmental movement    164 Conclusion  168 PART 3 Environmental policy : achieving a sustainable society  171 7.  The environment as a policy problem  173 Core characteristics of the environment as a policy problem  174 The traditional policy paradigm  181 Political obstacles to change  182 Achieving policy change  190 Conclusion  204 8.  Sustainable development and ecological modernisation  207 Sustainable development  208 Ecological modernisation : the practical solution?  227 Conclusion  237 9. Global environmental politics  241 The paradox of international co-operation  243 Environmental regimes : the ozone and climate change treaties  245 Accounting for regimes  256 Regime implementation  261 Global environmental politics and sustainable development  265 Conclusion  268 10. Globalisation, trade and the environment  271 Globalisation and the environment  272 International trade and the environment  274 The WTO and the environment  277 North American Free Trade Agreement  281 The European Union  282 Conclusion  288 11. Greening government  291 Integration  293 Planning  306 Democracy and participation  313 Conclusion  317 12. Policy instruments and implementation  321 Regulation and regulatory styles  323 Voluntary action  329 Government expenditure  332 Market-based instruments  332 Policy instruments and climate change  341 Conclusion  349 13. Conclusion  353 References  363 Index  401
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