Environmental Politics

City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality. Corina McKendry argues that greening is closely connected to post-industrial branding in the neoliberal economy...

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia...

This handbook will be the first to address inward investment in land and its impact on water resources in Africa, where land has attracted the attention of risk-taking investors because of the amount of under-utilised marginalized land, with associated water resources and rapidly growing domestic fo..

An understanding of the role of energy-related governance systems and the conditions required for a shift towards renewables in developing countries is urgently needed in order to tap into the global potential of low-carbon development. Although renewable energy sources have become technically feasi..

By addressing key questions in this important area, the book provides new perspectives in the nexus between agency and architecture in environmental governance in the twenty-first century...

Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us illuminates the interplay between environmental policies and the people and groups who influence their development and implementation...

An exploration of the impacts of Arctic regimes in such vital areas as pollution, biodiversity, indigenous affairs, health and climate change...

International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. This book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements, and analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored...

The book critically analyses the environmental treaty regimes which are designed to conserve coral reef ecosystems. The book looks at the subject from a number of coral reef perspectives such as coverage of these ecosystems, internal promotion of conservation, national implementation, and discusses ..

Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. This work..

This book investigates the emerging actors and new channels of Japan’s environmental governance which has been taking shape within an increasingly globalized international system. By analysing this important new phenomenon, it sheds light on the changing nature of Japan’s environmental policy and po..

This book illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of local environmental politics in China. The contributions reveal the mechanisms, effects, and impacts of on-going environmental experiments and innovations to improve implementation processes at the local level._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally..