Conceptual innovation in environmental policy / edited by James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino.
2017
GE170 .C6418 2017eb
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Title
Conceptual innovation in environmental policy / edited by James Meadowcroft and Daniel J. Fiorino.
ISBN
9780262341585 (electronic bk.)
0262341581 (electronic bk.)
9780262036580 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0262036584 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780262534086 (paperback alkaline paper)
0262534088 (paperback alkaline paper)
0262341581 (electronic bk.)
9780262036580 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0262036584 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780262534086 (paperback alkaline paper)
0262534088 (paperback alkaline paper)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations.
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GE170 .C6418 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.7/0561
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.
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