Comparative environmental politics: theory, practice, and prospects

by Steinberg, Paul F. VanDeveer, Stacy D.

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

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Full title :Comparative environmental politics : theory, practice, and prospects / edited by Paul F. Steinberg and Stacy D. VanDeveer.

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Publication Date:c2012.

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Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2012.

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Chapter 9. Institutional Change in Authoritarian Regimes: Water and the State in Egypt.

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Description:1 online resource (441 p.).

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ISBN:1280499427, 9781280499425, 9786613594655, 6613594652, 0262301156, 9780262301152
oclc:on1290055935
LC Classification:GE180
Dewey Decimal:320.5/8

Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Part I. Building Bridges: Comparative Politics and the Environment; Chapter 1. Comparative Environmental Politics in a Global World; Questions Transcend Borders; Beyond "Spaceship Earth" : Engaging Complexity, Fostering Understanding; The Comparative Advantage; A Fresh Take on Global Environmental Politics; An Overview of the Book; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Bridging Archipelagos: Connecting Comparative Politics and Environmental Politics; The Comparative Politics Tradition

Toward a Distinctive Tradition in Comparative Environmental Politics The Challenge Ahead; Notes; References; Part II. Greening States and Societies; Chapter 3. Greening the State?; A Brief History of Environmental Governance; Genesis of an Environmental State; Changing Patterns of State Activity; Greening the State; Notes; References; Chapter 4. The Globalization of Environmental Concern; The Theory of Postmaterialist Value Change; Challenges to the Postmaterialist Explanation of Environmental Concern; Revising the Postmaterialist Explanation of Environmentalism; Analyses of the WVS Data Sets

Implications for Policy Making and Social Science Theory Notes; Ref…

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Comparative government Comparative government -- United States ecology environmental policy Environmental policy -- United States Environnement -- Politique gouvernement… États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement Politics and government United States United States -- Environmental conditio… United States -- Politics and government