Environmental Governance (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)
By J.P. Evans.
Description
Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process of steering society, governance has a critical role to play in coordinating these disparate voices and...
ISBN(s)
0415589827, 9780415589826
