Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy
About the Book Series
The theory and practice of environmental politics and policy are rapidly emerging as key areas of intense concern in the first, third and industrializing worlds. People of diverse nationalities, religions and cultures wrestle daily with environment and development issues central to human and non-human survival on the planet Earth. Air, Water, Earth, Fire. These central elements mix together in so many ways, spinning off new constellations of issues, ideas and actions, gathering under a multitude of banners: energy security, food sovereignty, climate change, genetic modification, environmental justice and sustainability, population growth, water quality and access, air pollution, mal-distribution and over-consumption of scarce resources, the rights of the non-human, the welfare of future citizens-the list goes on. What is much needed in green debates is for theoretical discussions to be rooted in policy outcomes and service delivery. So, while still engaging in the theoretical realm, this series also seeks to provide a 'real world' policy-making dimension. Politics and policy making is interpreted widely here to include the territories, discourses, instruments and domains of political parties, non-governmental organizations, protest movements, corporations, international regimes, and transnational networks. From the local to the global-and back again-this series explores environmental politics and policy within countries and cultures, researching the ways in which green issues cross North-South and East-West divides. The 'Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy' series exposes the exciting ways in which environmental politics and policy can transform political relationships, in all their forms.
Local Politics and the Derailing of the UK's Shale Gas Ambitions: Power and Permission
1st Edition
By Andrew Scott
January 20, 2027
Local Politics and the Derailing of the UK's Shale Gas Ambitions examines how the 2013 UK government declared it was going “all out for shale”, but why, a decade later, no commercial shale gas had ever been produced, the industry had packed up and gone, and ministers were moving from moratorium to ...
Debating Planetary Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Deudney, Stefan Pedersen, Christine Winter
January 15, 2027
Debating Planetary Politics offers a range of perspectives that together provide a comprehensive overview of the issues and ideas central to the emerging field of planetary politics, giving due attention to its history, while primarily and uniquely advancing the contemporary state of the debate. An...
Securitizing Energy Resources and Critical Raw Materials: Natural Gas and Rare Earths
1st Edition
By Gina Panagopoulou
November 16, 2026
Securitizing Energy Resources and Critical Raw Materials explores what it takes for a natural resource to become securitized, and a source of conflict, through the examples of rare earths and natural gas. Under what circumstances do natural resources become securitized? Why have rare earths and ...
Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
1st Edition
By Wendy Godek, Gabriela Kütting
October 16, 2026
Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice employs the concept of coloniality to examine the relationship between global environmental governance and environmental justice. Global environmental governance is perceived to be the...
Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Food System in Latin America: Processed Diet
1st Edition
By José Manuel Leal
July 16, 2026
Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Food System in Latin America illustrates the relationship between climate change politics and food systems through a critical international political economy perspective. Economic globalization has changed our daily habits. Specifically, it has significantly ...
Political Ideologies and the Anthropocene Crisis
1st Edition
By David West
July 10, 2026
Through a critical discussion of political ideologies, Political Ideologies and the Anthropocene Crisis seeks to extricate the values of contending traditions – freedom, equality, justice, community, tradition, welfare, family, happiness, sustainability, peace, regeneration of nature etc. – from ...
Understanding and Implementing Environmental Public Policies
1st Edition
By Paola Coletti
September 18, 2025
Understanding and Implementing Environmental Public Policies provides a comprehensive overview of the complex subject of environmental policies. It engages readers in critical thinking on topics related to environmental policy while enabling them to learn common technical terminology and consider ...
The Populist Logic on the Environment
1st Edition
By Francesco Duina, Hermione Xiaoqing Zhou
July 31, 2025
The Populist Logic on the Environment provides a framework that draws from populism’s essence to explain populist politicians’ approaches to the environment. Over the past few decades, populism has spread across the world – particularly in Europe, but also notably in the US, South America, and Asia...
Environmental Citizenship in the Indian Ocean Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Benito Cao
September 25, 2023
The scale and severity of our environmental challenges are quickly becoming apparent. The Indian Ocean region features many places particularly vulnerable to the effects of environmental degradation and climate change, which will have profound social, economic, and cultural impacts. The increasing ...
The Politics of Climate Change Knowledge: Labelling Climate Change-induced Uprooted People
1st Edition
By Nowrin Tabassum
September 25, 2023
This book addresses political knowledge of climate change and its relation to labelling people affected by climate change, either as ‘climate refugees’ or as ‘climate change-induced displaced people or migrants’. By questioning the knowledge of climate change and subsequent labelling of people, ...
Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement
1st Edition
By Iain McIntyre
June 11, 2021
Since the 1970s, environmental blockades disrupting the exploitation and destruction of forests, rivers, and other biodiverse places have been one of the most attention-grabbing and contentious forms of political action. This book explores when, where, and why environmental blockading and its ...
The Politics of Arctic Resources: Change and Continuity in the "Old North" of Northern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By E. Keskitalo
December 18, 2020
The Arctic has often been seen as a natural area, or even a “wilderness”, where mainly indigenous and subsistence activities have been prominent. Contrary to this, the present volume highlights the very long historical development of resource use systems in northern Europe, across multiple actors ...