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Informationen zum Autor Joanne R Bauer Klappentext Drawing in an unusually rich empirical base, this timely and compelling book examines how environmental values are constructed and legitimized within the policy process. Zusammenfassung Drawing on an empirical base, this 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, and incorporates legal, economic, philosophical, sociological, and political perspective points. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Editor's Note; INTRODUCTION, Joanne Bauer; PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES IN FOUR COUNTRIES; 1. The Politics and Ethics of Going Green in China: Pollution Control in Benxi City and Wetland Preservation in the Sanjiang Nature Reserve, Liu Yu, Pan Wei, Shen Mingming, Song Guojun, Vivian Bertrand; Introduction by Judith Shapiro; 2. From Kogai to Kankyo Mondai: Nature, Development, and Social Conflict in Japan, Kada Yukiko, Tanaka Shigeru, Arakaki Tazusa, Watanabe Shinichi, Steven Hoffman; Introduction by Jeffrey Broadbent; 3. Rethinking Indian Environmentalism: Industrial Pollution in Delhi and Fisheries in Kerala India, Amita Baviskar, Subir Sinha, Kavita Philip; Introduction by Paul Greenough; 4. Two Faces of American Environmentalism: The Quest for Justice in Southern Louisiana and Sustainability in the Sonoran Desert, David Jenkins, Joanne Bauer, Scott Bruton, Diane Austin and Thomas McGuire; Introduction by Keith Kloor; PART II. UNDERSTANDING VALUES CROSS-NATIONALLY; 5. The Value of Legality in Environmental Action, Sheila Sen Jasanoff; 6. Environmental Transformations and the Values of Modernity, Arun Agrawal; 7. Evaluating Environmental Justice, Robert Melchior Figueroa; 8. Finding Shared Values: Reason and Trust in Environmental Governance, Clark Miller; PART III. REFLECTIONS ON THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; 9. How Shall We Study Values Comparatively? Joanne Bauer and Anna Ray Davies; List of Contributors; Index....
