The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Politics and Theory

This Handbook provides a comprehensive reference work on environmental politics and theory, covering empirical, normative, policy, political, organizational, and activist discussions across various disciplines. It aims to inform practitioners and newcomers about the latest developments and their implications, serving as a valuable resource for advanced researchers and students.

Format: Hardback
Length: 715 pages
Publication date: 03 March 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible one-volume reference work, showcasing the latest interdisciplinary explorations in this rapidly evolving field of intellectual and practical significance. Given the immense scope and diversity of environmental politics and theory, it necessarily encompasses a wide range of empirical, normative, policy, political, organizational, and activist discussions unfolding across numerous disciplines. It presents a formidable challenge for practitioners, both seasoned and newcomers, to stay abreast of the ongoing developments in this rapidly changing area of study and to comprehend the full range of their implications. By offering an extensive scope of contributions that emphasize environmental policy issues, normative prescriptions, and implementation strategies, the Handbook aims to serve as a valuable resource for the next generation of thinkers and activists. It seeks to provide them with comprehensive profiles of the theories, concepts, organizations, and movements that are central to environmental politics and theory. The editors aspire that this volume will become a go-to resource for advanced researchers seeking to deepen their understanding of the field, as well as an introduction to new students seeking to grasp the fundamental foundations and recommended resolutions to many of our environmental challenges.

Environmental politics extends beyond mere theory, and the Handbook also explores the connections between theory and action by highlighting the past and present thinkers, activists, social organizations, and movements that have worked to guide contemporary societies toward a more environmentally sustainable and just global order. Chapter "Eco-Anxiety and the Responses of Ecological Citizenship and Mindfulness" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via the following link: link.springer.com.

Weight: 1268g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031143458
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023