A collection of articles addressing the issue of whether the industrial model of human progress can be sustained in the long term. It asks what the social, poli

A new edition with new and updated case studies and analysis that demonstrate the trend in U.S. environmental policy toward sustainability at local and regional

The contributors to this volume focus on the political and value issues that, in their shared view, underlie the global environmental crisis facing us today. Th

Global environmental politics has emerged from its initial incarnation in the arena of 'low politics' and is rapidly becoming a 'high politics' concern. Concern