Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries: Economic Growth, Democracy, and Environment

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Uday Desai
SUNY Press, 1998 M04 16 - 327 pages
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.

[Contributors include Lester Ross, Robert Cribb, Jonathan Rigg and Philip Stott, Juju Chin-Shou Wang, R. K. Sapru, Stephen P. Mumme, Pablo Gutman, Olusegun Areola, and Catherine Albrecht.]

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Contents

ENVIRONMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH AND GOVERNMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES UDAY DESAI
1
THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA LESTER ROSS
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND POLITICS IN INDONESIA ROBERT CRIBB
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FOREST TALES POLITICS POLICY MAKING AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THAILAND JONATHAN RIGG AND PHILIP STOTT
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ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH POLLUTION TAIWANS ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE JUJU CHINSHOU WANG
103
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND POLITICS IN INDIA R K SAPRU
135
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND POLITICS IN MEXICO STEPHEN P MUMME
165
POLITICS AND POLICIES IN VENEZUELAS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PABLO GUTMAN
187
COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND POLICIES IN NIGERIA OLUSEGUN AREOLA
211
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA CATHERINE ALBRECHT
249
POVERTY GOVERNMENT AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT UDAY DESAI
277
CONTRIBUTORS
285
INDEX
289
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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.

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