Politics and the Environment
“Politics and the Environment” is a topic that transcends environmental policy as a delimited policy field. While dealing with the challenges that arise from limited resources and the destruction of ecological systems, contemporary societies have comprehensively altered their policies, politics and polities. In this edited volume environmental policy is described both as an example for the general development of political systems and a driving force for their modernisation. The individual contributions address fundamental political science problems. While dealing with environmental policy issues, they discuss questions of governing beyond the nation state and in multi-level systems; the development of transboundary cooperation in the international system; the influence of non-state actors, interdependence and integration of multiple policy domains; state capacity and autonomy under conditions of globalization and international competition; as well as problems of justice, participation and democracy. Taken together, the contributions reflect the plurality of methodological approaches and theoretical orientations in contemporary political science. They prove that methods and theories are immensely fruitful for analysing environmental policy, generating practical knowledge and developing the discipline.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift, VS Verlag: Wiesbaden, Volume 39/2007, , ISBN 978-3-531-14889-2, ISSN 0032-3470
Editors: Klaus Jacob, Per Olof Busch, Peter H. Feindt and Frank Biermann
Additional Information
Forthcoming. In German