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Posted on August 4, 2006
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Drawing on an unusually rich empirical base, this timely and compelling book examines how environmental values are constructed and legitimized within the policy process.
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Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, And Contested Environments, Joanne Bauer (Editor)
Published by M.E. Sharpe; New Ed edition, May 30, 2006, 427 pages.

Drawing on an unusually rich empirical base, this timely and compelling book examines how environmental values are constructed and legitimized within the policy process. It trains the spotlight on four environmentally significant countries--China, Japan, India, and the United States--representing a wide diversity of cultural, social, economic, and political characteristics. Through a combination of case studies and comparative analysis, the contributors illuminate the cultural assumptions, standards, and analytic techniques that shape environmental actions and policies around the world. Forging Environmentalism provides valuable direction regarding what can be done to secure public support for and trust in environmental policies. Incorporating expert legal, economic, philosophical, sociological, and political perspectives, it points the way toward the possibilities for a convergence of environmental norms and values across diverse cultures




Reprinted with permission from the Foreign Policy Association.

To read another Global Envision article on influencing environmental policy, see UN Conference Brings about Change in US Stance on Global Warming.



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