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This introductory text demonstrates the ways in which politics and policy respond to environmental problems. Environment and Politics examines the institutional responses of parliaments the responses of parties and electoral systems the roles of non-governmental organizations and social movements the politics of business and industry. To highlight the multiplicity of political responses to environmental challenges the text features a wealth of original boxed case studies from around the world.
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Professor Doug McEachern is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at The University of Western Australia. He has responsibility for research policy development and general oversight of the University’s research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation.
Professor Timothy Doyle is Chair of Politics and International Relations at Keele University, and Professor of Politics in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide.
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"An examiniation of the environment-politics nexus that is insightful beyond the norm. The authors negotiate the complexities of sustainable development wonderfully well. There are excellent treatments of bureaucratic systems, NGOs, the business sector and international ecopolitics." -- Pete Hay, University of Tasmania
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