'An evenhanded, realistic and thoughtful approach to identifying
environmental problems and management goals' Stephen Zavestoski,
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies,
University of San Francisco '...a theoretically advanced yet
accessible treatment of environmental governance, drawing on an
impressive range of material to investigate the roles of states and
industries in addressing environmental problems.' Harriet Bulkeley,
Department of Geography, University of Durham 'Written in the vein
of critical optimism, this book is pitched at the right level to
inspire people trying to make pragmatic changes to their
governmental and industrial systems: trying to make a difference
where it counts.' Timothy Doyle, Associate Professor in
Geographical and Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide What
is the future for our environment? We face serious risks of major
industrial accidents and global environmental degradation, yet new
technological developments promise a standard of living
unimaginable only a few generations ago. Michael Howes outlines the
ways in which governments have responded to environmental risk over
the past four decades. He examines the key environmental issues and
the claims of envirosceptics, offering a new strategy for making
major administrative decisions in the face of uncertainty. He
explains how governments have developed environmental policy, and
the ongoing tensions between science, industry, the state, social
movements, and electoral politics. In a clear, straightforward
manner, he shows how to use the work of theorists Ulrich Beck,
Michel Foucault and John Dryzek to analyse environmental policy. He
also develops a new method of measuring the effectiveness of
environmental governance in developed countries. Howes draws on a
wide array of sources from business, government, environment
groups, academic research, and NGOs to illustrate his arguments,
with comparisons between the environmental policies of the UK, the
USA and Australia.
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