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Print Price: $13.50

Format:
Paperback
144 pp.
9 b/w halftones and illustrations, 111 mm x 174 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199665570

Publication date:
January 2016

Imprint: OUP UK


Environmental Politics: A Very Short Introduction

Andrew Dobson

Series : Very Short Introductions

Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one of accommodation.

In thisVery Short Introduction , Andrew Dobson offers a lively and comprehensive commentary on the many facets of environmental politics today. Looking towards the future, he asks whether environmental politics will be comfortably accommodated by mainstream politics, or whether the advent of the Anthropocene - a whole new geological epoch driven by human impact on the environment - will herald a break with the politics of growth that has dominated social life since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Readership : General readers interested in the politics of the environment, and students of environmental politics, both at A level and early undergraduate level.

Introduction: What is Environmental Politics?
1. Origins
2. Ideas
3. Movements, Parties, Policies
4. Local and Global, North and South
5. Environmental Futures
Further Reading
Index

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Professor Andrew Dobson taught politics, political theory, and environmental politics at Keele University and the Open University. He is an internationally-recognised authority on environmental politics, and his work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, Korean, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. Previous books include Citizenship and the Environment (OUP, 2003) and Listening for Democracy: recognition, representation, reconciliation (OUP, 2014).

Special Features

  • Covers all the principal areas of environmental politics: its origins; ideas; parties; and the international dimension.
  • Discusses environmental politics in its historical and comparative context.
  • Contains a wide range of lively examples that illustrate the issues environmental politics faces.
  • Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over seven million copies sold worldwide.