Comparative Environmental Politics

Comparative Environmental Politics
Author: Paul F. Steinberg
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2012
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262195852

Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems.

Third World Political Ecology

Third World Political Ecology
Author: Sinead Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2005-08-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134798032

An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that integrates political, economic and ecological issues. Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World. The authors review the historical development of the field, explain what is distinctive about Third World political ecology, and suggest areas for future development. Clarifying the essentially politicised condition of environmental change today, the authors explore the role of various actors - states, multilateral institutions, businesses, environmental non-governmental organisations, poverty-stricken farmers, shifting cultivators and other 'grassroots' actors - in the development of the Third World's politicised environment. Third World Political Ecology is the first major attempt to explain the development and characteristics of environmental problems that plague parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Drawing on examples from throughout the Third World, the book will be of interest to all those who wish to understand the political and economic bases of the Third World's current predicament.

The Politics of the Environment

The Politics of the Environment
Author: Neil Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108472303

Revised to include new discussions on climate justice, green political parties, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles.

Environmental Politics in the Middle East

Environmental Politics in the Middle East
Author: Harry Verhoeven
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190916680

Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about them.

The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries

The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries
Author: Piers Blaikie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317268385

First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often inform them. Using the context of developing countries, where the effects tend to be more acute due to underdevelopment and climatic factors, this work aims to examine this source of uncertainty and make explicit the underlying assumptions in the debate about soil erosion. It also rejects the notion that soil erosion is a politically neutral issue and argues that conservation requires fundamental social change. This title will be of interest to students of environmental and developmental studies.

Origins and Evolution of Environmental Policies

Origins and Evolution of Environmental Policies
Author: Tadayoshi Terao
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800378823

This unique book traces the origins and evolution of environmental policy formation, comparing the differences in this process between developing and developed countries. It focuses on the importance of the state’s role and issues of timing and sequence in the creation of environmental policies.

Environmental Management: Issues and Concerns in Developing Countries

Environmental Management: Issues and Concerns in Developing Countries
Author: Pradip K. Sikdar
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2021-03-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 303062529X

This book deals with issues and concerns for the human environment in the developing countries incorporating natural processes and systems, pollution removal technology, energy conservation, environmental impact assessment process, economics, culture, political structure and societal equity from a management point of view. Solutions to the emerging problems of the environment need a paradigmatic shift in approach from a process based model to a socio-political-economic model. Hence environmental management should involve equality and control over use of the finite natural resources and the balance between Earth’s biocapacity and humanity’s ecological footprint. Changes such as green technologies, human population stabilization and adoption of ecologically harmonious lifestyles are absolutely essential and will require redesigning of political institutions, policies and revisiting forgotten skills of sustainable practices of environmental management. These challenges should centre on environment governance using the concepts of common property, equity and security. This book is relevant for academics, professionals, administrators and policy makers who are concerned with various aspects of environment management and governance.

Making Politics Work for Development

Making Politics Work for Development
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2016-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464807744

Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.