The Politics of Environmental Performance

The Politics of Environmental Performance
Author: Detlef Jahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107118042

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Approach, Method and Concepts: 2. Explaining environmental performance; 3. Preferences in environmental politics; 4. The institutional settings in 21 OECD countries; Part II. Environmental Performance in 21 OECD Countries: 5. Measuring environmental performance; 6. Aggregating environmental performance data; Part III. Analysis: 7. Domestic politics; 8. International politics; 9. The nexus of domestic and international politics; 10. Conclusion

Giving Aid Effectively

Giving Aid Effectively
Author: Mark T. Buntaine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190467452

In Giving Aid Effectively, Mark T. Buntaine argues that countries that are members of international organizations have prompted multilateral development banks to give development and environmental aid more effectively by generating better information about performance. To reach this conclusion, he employs a systematic analysis of responses to evaluations and in-depth case studies about the use of information at multilateral development banks.

The Politics of Environmental Performance

The Politics of Environmental Performance
Author: Detlef Jahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316817741

As the world faces the prospect of climate change, nuclear disasters, and water scarcity, it is clear that environmental degradation is an increasingly serious challenge with economic and social consequences. In this book, Detlef Jahn analyzes political processes in a macro-comparative study in order to estimate the role of politics in the field of environmental performance in twenty-one OECD countries. His model demonstrates various styles of politics used to combat environmental degradation. He finds that economic and environmental performance are still closely linked, and that moving towards a service society does not by itself solve the environmental challenge. The close relationship of these areas was made strikingly clear in the economic crisis of the new millennium. He argues that economic globalization fosters environmental deterioration, and undermines efforts in domestic politics and international coordination to improve the environmental record.

State and Environment

State and Environment
Author: Andreas Duit
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2014-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 026252581X

This volume of comparative studies documents the continuing relevance of the state in environmental politics and policy. The book also demonstrates the analytical power of the comparative approach to the study of environmental politics and policy, offering cross-national comparisons of environmental governance in both developed and developing countries. Some chapters are based on qualitative studies from a small number of countries; others offer statistical analyses of quantitative data from many more countries over a longer time period.

The Politics of Environmental Discourse

The Politics of Environmental Discourse
Author: Maarten A. Hajer
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 1995-12-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019152106X

Dr Hajer's path-breaking study opens the way for a better understanding of the environmental conflict, showing how language can be seen to shape our view of what environmental politics is really about and how those perceptions can differ between countries. The author identifies the emergence and increasing political importance of 'ecological modernization' as a new concept in the language of environmental politics. This concept, which has come to replace the antagonistic debates of the 1970s, stresses the opportunities of environmental policy for modernizing the economy and stimulating the technological innovation. Combining abstract social theory with detailed empirical analysis, Martin Hajer illustrates the social and political dynamics of ecological modernization in a detailed analysis of the acid rain controversies in Great Britain and the Netherlands. He concludes by reflecting on the institutional challenge of the environmental politics in the years to come.

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.

Environmental Performance:

Environmental Performance:
Author: Haroon ar Rashid Khan
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781536185942

"Environment has become a central issue in the present day world. Environmental sustainability has been advocated as a major goal to deal with growing problems of pollution that threaten the very existence of the human beings. The dismal picture of global warming brings to the attention the necessity of environmental performance so that the governments in the world can take positive steps toward sustainability. The book uses the data from the Yale Center for Environment and Policy. It uses Environmental Performance Index (EPI) prepared by the Yale Center. The book explores the relationship between environmental performance and democracy, ideology, leadership, good governance, participation in international agreements, economic factors, and globalization"--

Critical Political Ecology

Critical Political Ecology
Author: Timothy Forsyth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134665806

Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand the relationship between environmental science and politics. In this timely and wide-ranging volume, Tim Forsyth uses an innovative approach to apply political analysis to ecology, and demonstrates how more politicised approaches to science can be used in environmental decision-making. Critical Political Ecology examines: *how social and political factors frame environmental science, and how science in turn shapes politics *how new thinking in philosophy and sociology of science can provide fresh insights into the biophysical causes and impacts of environmental problems *how policy and decision-makers can acknowledge the political influences on science and achieve more effective public participation and governance.

Global Environmental Politics

Global Environmental Politics
Author: Gareth Porter
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1991
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780813310343

Essays discuss environmental issues, interest groups, security and trade considerations, and future approaches to environmental policy

Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?

Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?
Author: Daniel McDowell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190605766

Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? explores how and why the U.S. has regularly acted, often alongside the IMF, as an international lender of last resort by selectively bailing out foreign economies in crisis. Daniel McDowell highlights the unique role that the U.S. has played in stabilizing the world economy from the 1960s through 2008.