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Book Description
The interconnectedness of the global environment and finiteness of the earth's natural resources require an increased understanding of environmental and natural-resource policy and politics in countries around the world. This is especially true of industrializing countries where widespread ecological disturbances and rapid exploitation of natural resources are taking place. Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries provides an in-depth study of ecological problems, policies, and politics in ten major industrializing countries. Each chapter discusses the increasingly international context of domestic environmental policies and explores some of the powerful interests and institutional forces that contribute to ecological problems and shape the policies to deal with them in each country. The authors identify some of the major impediments to both well-designed environmental policies and their effective implementation. The ten countries included here--the Czech Republic, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Taiwan, Thailand, Slovakia, and Venezuela--cover five continents, over half of the world's population and most of the major industrializing countries.
About the Author
Uday Desai is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science Department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and is coeditor-in-chief of Policy Studies Journal. Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries is the first of two volumes on environmental politics and policy; the second volume, focusing on industrialized countries, will also be published by SUNY Press.
Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries: Economic Growth, Democracy, and Environment (Suny Series in International Environmental Policy and Theory),Uday Desai,State University of New York Press,0791437809,Developing countries,Ecology,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Environmental policy,Political Science,Politics/International Relations,Public Affairs & Administration,Public Policy - General
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