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Strategic Culture and Italy's Military Behavior
Between Pacifism and Realpolitik
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Italy, although it considers itself to be a middle-sized power on par with France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, has been incapable of playing an international role comparable to theirs, instead keeping a low-profile foreign policy. This has not been due to any material constraints—Italy’s...
Corporate Power and the Environment
The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2001
Environmental policy is broadly viewed as an oasis of democracy, unspoiled by crass capitalism and undominated by corporate interests. This book counters that view. The focus of Corporate Power and the Environment focuses on how U.S. economic elites—corporate decisionmakers and other individuals...
Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights
Law and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Climate Change already having serious impacts on the lives of millions of people across the world. These impacts are not only ecological, but also social, economic and legal. Among the most significant of such impacts is climate change-induced migration. The implications of this on human rights raise...
Regulation Theory and Sustainable Development
Business Leaders and Ecological Modernisation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book argues that current economist theories do not take into account the socially constructed nature of the debate surrounding the environment and environmental policy. It examines whether proposed economic solutions to environmental policy are, in fact, viable in practice.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book discusses political controversies involved in global biodiversity policy, and the practical opportunities that are opened up in solving them through increased citizen participation and democratic deliberation. It examines the emerging practice of deliberative global governance and its political...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Canadian foreign policy under the government of Justin Trudeau, with a concentration on the areas of climate change, trade, Indigenous rights, arms sales, refugees, military affairs, and relationships with the United States and China. At the book’s...
America’s Space Futures
Defining Goals for Space Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
America’s Space Futures is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about space policy, the American space program, and the human destiny in space. It lays out alternative paradigms and frameworks for assessing America’s future in space and how different visions would require changes to America’s...
Environmental Policy in the EU
Actors, institutions and processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The European Union (EU) has a hugely important effect on the way in which environmental policies are framed and implemented in many different parts of the world, but especially Europe. The new and comprehensively revised edition of this well-known textbook provides a state-of-the-art analysis of all...
by A. Pablo Iannone
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This essential volume for professionals and academics proposes a new approach to environmental ethics and to environmental policymaking in particular. All too frequently, policy makers focus only on what ends should ideally be pursued, ignoring whether the means have any negative unintended consequences....
The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Identity Politics in Twenty-First Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Assessing the limits of pluralism, this book examines different types of political inclusion and exclusion and their distinctive dimensions and dynamics. Why are particular social groups excluded from equal participation in political processes? How do these groups become more fully included as equal...
Russia
Strategy, Policy and Administration
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
This book examines how Russia, the world’s most complicated country, is governed. As it resumes its place at the centre of global affairs, the book explores Russia’s overarching strategies, and how it organizes itself (or not) in policy areas ranging from foreign policy and national security to...
Cities Responding to Climate Change
Copenhagen, Stockholm and Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book explores the climate policy approaches established by various city governments. It details the strategies, plans and initiatives that have so far been designed to both mitigate and adapt to the impacts of global warming. In doing so, it considers the implications of the actions taken by...
The Ogoki River Guides
Emergent Leadership among the Northern Ojibwa
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The Ogoki River Guides describes the prolonged struggle that members of a small native community in northern Ontario have undertaken in their attempt to establish a viable local economy. The leaders of Collins, the community in which the events of the book take place, have made a concerted effort...
by S. Aggarwal-Khan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This book questions the practices in the policy processes of international institutions. It looks at the formal and informal practices that are routinely undertaken as part of the structure of international policy processes, and analyses how people behave and with what outcome for international environmental governance.