Understanding the Environment and Social Policy

Using an international and multi-disciplinary approach, this book provides a timely overview of the current issues in environmentalism and social policy. It explores many current debates, including: cities, housing and transport; citizenship and care; employment and green jobs; environmental governance and legislation; and globalisation.

About the author

Tony Fitzpatrick is Reader at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-editor of the journal Policy & Politics and was the principal editor of the three-volume International Encyclopaedia of Social Policy (2006). His other recent books include Voyage to Utopias (Policy Press, 2010) and the second edition of Welfare Theory (2011).

Summary

Using an international and multi-disciplinary approach, this book provides a timely overview of the current issues in environmentalism and social policy. It explores many current debates, including: cities, housing and transport; citizenship and care; employment and green jobs; environmental governance and legislation; and globalisation.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Fitzpatrick
• Assisted by: Tony Fitzpatrick (Editor), Tony (School of Sociology and Social Policy Fitzpatrick (Editor)
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2011
• EAN: 9781847423795
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-379-5
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 665 g
• Series: Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series; Understanding Welfare: Social; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education