The environmental state under pressure

• Other Authors: Mol, A. P. J., Buttel, Frederick H.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam : JAI, 2002.
• Series: Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 10.
• Subjects: Environmental policy.; Environmental ethics.; Environmental quality.; Central government.; Social impact of environmental issues.; Political Science > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.

For a long time in industrialized countries the state occupied a comfortable and unquestioned position in dealing with environmental problems. Since the 1960s we have witnessed the rather smooth institutionalization of environmental tasks in state policies and politics, leading to the emergence of t...