A seasoned environmental educator and researcher addresses the issue
of environmental policy over the last three decades and asks: How has
government responded to environmental crises across the world? What has
worked? And where to from here?
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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