A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
Environmental historian Federico Paolini talks to Wolfgang Sachs, head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, about some of today’s major environmental issues. These range from ecological justice to resources, development, and climate.
Introduces nonregimes into the study of global governance, and compares successes with failures in the formation of environmental treaties.
Tom O’Riordan discusses valuation as revelation and reconciliation, arguing that a more legitimate participatory form of democracy is required to reveal valuation through consensual negotiation.
Klaus Peter Rippe and Peter Schaber discuss democracy and environmental decision-making.
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
Andrew Jamison and Erik Baark attempt to indicate how national cultural differences affect the ways in which science and technology policies in the environmental field are formulated and implemented.
Mark Huxham and David Sumner assess the case of the Brent Spar, discussing some of the lessons that should be learnt from the incident by policy makers and scientists.
Yvonne Rydin examines the different ways in which the significance of environmental discourse is recognized, analyzing its influence.
Clark A. Miller proposes four models of societal processes by which framing occurs, concluding with ideas for further research.