| schema:description | "内容記述: Introduction: Why environmental politics?; Sustainable development; The structure of the book; PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT AND POLITICAL ACTION: 1. Environmental philosophy: Reasoning about nature and the environment; Three moral traditions and the environment; The nature of value and the value of nature; Duties to the human world; Conclusion; Case study: modifying nature; 2. Green Ideology: Politics, ethics and the Limits to Growth; Western political traditions and the emergence of a green political ideology; Sustainable development, ecological modernisation and beyond; Conclusion; Case study: principles and policies of the green political programme; 3. The environmental movement: Green parties; Environmental pressure groups; Transforming everyday life: from green consumerism to green communes; Conclusion; Case study: Twyford Down and the formation of an anti-roads movement; PART II. THE BACKGROUND TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: 4. Rationality and power in environmental policy making: Collective action problems; Public opinion and the issue-attention cycle; Complexity, uncertainty and bounded rationality; Power and influence, setting the policy agenda; Greening the policy process; Conclusion; Case study: air pollution in the Untied States; 5. Choosing the means: Regulation and enforcement; Economic instruments; Voluntary approaches; Regulation, economic, or voluntary instruments?; Conclusion; Case study: road congestion: the prices to be paid?; 6. Valuation of the environment: Economic valuation of environmental interventions; Environmental impact assessment; Measuring sustainable development; Conclusion; Case study: weak and strong sustainability; PART III. ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: GLOBAL TO LOCAL: 7. International dimensions: The international political and economic systems: The international political and economic systems; Agents of change: international organisations and non-governmental organisations; Rio and beyond: sustainable development and international politics; Conclusion; Case study: the politics of climate change; 8. European integration: The structure and operation of the European Union; From policies to policy?; Principles of EU environmental policy; Contemporary issues in EU environmental policy; Towards sustainability? The EU's Fifth and Sixth Environmental Action Programmes; Conclusion; Case study: the role of the European Environment Agency; 9. National responses: Factors affecting national environmental policy making; Towards integrated pollution control (IPC); Sustainable development and the nation state; Conclusion; Case study: the Dutch National Environmental Policy Plan: to choose or to lose?; 10. Local authorities and local democracy: The case for local democracy; The structure and practice of local government; Local Agenda 21 and beyond: local authorities and sustainable development; Conclusion; Case study: Sustainable Seattle; Closing remarks: the future of environmental politics?...(more)" |