Series: Issues in Environmental Politics

Environmental Politics in the European Union provides a comprehensive introduction to the development, making, and implementation of European Union environmental politics, identifying the central areas and instruments of EU environmental policy. It analyses the factors influencing not only the formulation but also the implementation of environmental measures within the complex multi-level setting of the EU. On this basis, the book...

This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world's largest multilateral development lender, investment financier, and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development. It challenges an emerging consensus over international organisational change to argue that international organisations (IOs) are influenced by their social structure and may change their practices to reflect previously antithetical norms such as sustainable development. This...

Multinational corporations are not merely the problem in environmental concerns, but could also be part of the solution. The oil industry and climate change provide the clearest example of how the two are linked; what is less well-known is how the industry is responding to these concerns. This volume, available for the first time in paperback, presents a detailed study...

Sweden and Ecological Governance explores the pioneering role of Sweden in environmental and ecological policy. Now available in paperback, this book delves into policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance, using the Swedish case study to examine the transition from traditional environmental policies to a comprehensive pursuit of sustainable development, exemplified by the 'Sustainable Sweden' programme. The study begins by...