Title Politics and the environment : risk and the role of government and industry / Michael Howes

Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2005

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	363.7 How/Pat		AVAILABLE
MELB	363.7 How/Pat		AVAILABLE
W'PONDS	363.7 How/Pat		AVAILABLE

Description xxxiii, 218 pages ; 23 cm Contents Introduction: The state, environmentalists and industry -- Part A - What's the problem?: Chapter 1: The nature of risk and uncertainty -- Chapter 2: The origins of risk and modern governance -- Part B - How has government responded?: Chapter 3: National environment protection institutions -- Chapter 4: Restrictions, regulations and economic incentives -- Chapter 5: Knowledge, environmental assessment and pollution inventories -- Chapter 6: Sustainable development in the UN and Australia -- Chapter 7: Sustainable development in the USA and UK -- Part C - Has it worked?: Chapter 8: Has government intervention worked? -- Chapter 9: Has industry changed the way it operates? -- Conclusions: Greening democracy? Summary Addresses the issue of environmental policy over the last three decades and asks: How has government responded to environmental crises across the world? What has worked? And where to from here? Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 183-209 Subject Environmental policy. Conservation of natural resources. Sustainable development. Environmental Environmental policy -- Australia. Environmental policy -- United States. Environmental policy -- Great Britain. LC no. 00002617 ISBN 9781741142167 paperback 1741142164 paperback

Other Titles Risk and the role of government and industry

  Permalink