Conceptual innovation in environmental policy / edited by James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino.
2017
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Title
Conceptual innovation in environmental policy / edited by James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino.
Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations.
Series
American and comparative environmental policy.
Formatted Contents Note
Conceptual innovation and environmental policy / James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino
The conceptual repertoire of environmental policy / James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino
The birth of the environment and the evolution of environmental governance / James Meadowcroft
Environmental impact assessment : can procedural innovation improve environmental outcomes? / Richard N.L. Andrews
Environmental risk : new approaches needed to address twenty-first century challenges / Michael E. Kraft
Critical loads : negotiating what nature can withstand / Karin Bäckstrand
Adaptive management : popular but difficult to implement / Judith A. Layzer and Alexis Schulman
Sustainable development : linking environment and development / Oluf Langhelle
Biodiversity : increasing the political clout of nature conservation / Yrjö Haila
Environmental justice : making policy, one skirmish at a time / Karen Baehler
Environmental security : policy within a violent imaginary / Johannes Stripple
Green economy : reframing ecology, economics, and equity / Daniel J. Fiorino
Sustainable consumption : an important but ambiguous concept / Philip J. Vergragt
Conceptual innovation and the future of environmental policy / James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino.
The conceptual repertoire of environmental policy / James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino
The birth of the environment and the evolution of environmental governance / James Meadowcroft
Environmental impact assessment : can procedural innovation improve environmental outcomes? / Richard N.L. Andrews
Environmental risk : new approaches needed to address twenty-first century challenges / Michael E. Kraft
Critical loads : negotiating what nature can withstand / Karin Bäckstrand
Adaptive management : popular but difficult to implement / Judith A. Layzer and Alexis Schulman
Sustainable development : linking environment and development / Oluf Langhelle
Biodiversity : increasing the political clout of nature conservation / Yrjö Haila
Environmental justice : making policy, one skirmish at a time / Karen Baehler
Environmental security : policy within a violent imaginary / Johannes Stripple
Green economy : reframing ecology, economics, and equity / Daniel J. Fiorino
Sustainable consumption : an important but ambiguous concept / Philip J. Vergragt
Conceptual innovation and the future of environmental policy / James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino.
Summary
"Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning and debate and serve as building blocks for more elaborate arguments. This book traces the links between conceptual innovation in the environmental sphere and the evolution of environmental policy and discourse. It offers both a broad framework for examining the emergence, evolution, and effects of policy concepts and a detailed analysis of eleven influential environmental concepts. In recent decades, conceptual evolution has been particularly notable in environmental governance, as new problems have emerged and as environmental issues have increasingly intersected with other areas. "Biodiversity," for example, was unheard of until the late 1980s; "negative carbon emissions" came into being only during the last few years. After a review of concepts and their use in environmental argument, chapters chart the trajectories of a range of environmental concepts: environment, sustainable development, biodiversity, environmental assessment, critical loads, adaptive management, green economy, environmental risk, environmental security, environmental justice, and sustainable consumption. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars and policy makers and also offers a novel introduction to the environmental policy field through the evolution of its conceptual categories."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Location
WWW
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Print version: Conceptual innovation in environmental policy. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
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Language
English
ISBN
9780262341585 (electronic book)
0262341581 (electronic book)
9780262036580 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0262036584 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780262534086 (paperback alkaline paper)
0262534088 (paperback alkaline paper)
0262341581 (electronic book)
9780262036580 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0262036584 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780262534086 (paperback alkaline paper)
0262534088 (paperback alkaline paper)
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