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Norwegian Political Scientists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 22

Norwegian Political Scientists

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 21. Chapters: Alf-Inge Jansen, Anders Hasselgard, Beatrice Halsaa, Bernt Hagtvet, Christian Lous Lange, Einar Berntzen, Espen Barth Eide, Frank Aarebrot, Geir Flikke, Hanne Marthe Narud, Hege Skjeie, Helga Hernes, Helge Blakkisrud, Helge Hveem, Helge Ole Bergesen, Henrik Urdal, Iver B. Neumann, Janne Haaland Matlary, Johan Galtung, Johan Jorgen Holst, John Kristen Skogan, Jon Elster, Kaare Strom (political scientist), Kjell H. Halvorsen, Knut Heidar, Knut Langfeldt, Lars Svasand, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Nina Graeger, Odd-Bjorn Fure, Ola Tunander, Ole T. Berg, ...

Governance and Environment in Western Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Governance and Environment in Western Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Governance and Environment in Western Europe: Politics, Policy and Administration, provides an up-to-date overview of developments in this area focusing on a selection of ten countries in Western Europe and the European Union. The countries examined are: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The range of countries covered - representing as they do different stages of development in environmental policy, different state and institutional traditions - provides an interesting comparative analysis of how different countries confronting similar problems of environmental management have responded politically and (re)organised their administrative systems for implementing these policies.

Governing the Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Governing the Environment

This volume the second by this editorial team addresses many of the issues to be resolved if we are to manage environmental public goods efficiently and sustainably. What is the right scale of governance? What makes for effective public private partnership? What makes governance systems effective? When do we need supranational governance? Given the complex nature of social-ecological systems these are hard questions. Breton and his collaborators answer them in ways that are both convincing and insightful. A very valuable contribution. Charles Perrings, Arizona State University, US Environmental policy, focusing on the control of pollution and on over-exploitation, easily overlooks the extens...

State and Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

State and Environment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-30
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

This volume of comparative studies documents the continuing relevance of the state in environmental politics and policy. The book also demonstrates the analytical power of the comparative approach to the study of environmental politics and policy, offering cross-national comparisons of environmental governance in both developed and developing countries. Some chapters are based on qualitative studies from a small number of countries; others offer statistical analyses of quantitative data from many more countries over a longer time period.

A Nordic Environmental Research Programme for 1993-1997
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60
Ibss: Political Science: 1998
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

Ibss: Political Science: 1998

Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, this series provides the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. Arranged by topic and indexed by author, subject and place-name, each bibliography lists and annotates the most important works published in its field during the year of 1997, including hard-to-locate journal articles. Each volume also includes a complete list of the periodicals consulted.

Oil, the State, and Federalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

Oil, the State, and Federalism

John Erik Fossum explores the reasons for the federal government's intervention in the energy industry between 1973 and 1984 and shows how its initial objectives failed, culminating in the privatization of Petro-Canada in 1990.

Democracy and Green Political Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Democracy and Green Political Thought

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-12-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Some of the leading writers on green political thought discuss the status of democracy within Green political thought, and the institutions that might be necessary to ensure democracy in a sustainable society.

The State and the Global Ecological Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

The State and the Global Ecological Crisis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Explores the prospects for reinstating the state as the facilitator of environmental protection, through analyses and case studies of the green democratic potential of the state and the state system.