
British Politics and the Environment
John McCormick(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-415-84630-1 (ISBN)
Description
Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. John McCormick describes the fascinating story of the political growth of that law, and the pressures, the compromises, the parliamentary and civil service opportunism that allowed the edifice to grow over the greater part of a century.
He tells the story of the absolute change in political climate over the last ten years and deciphers the nature of Thatcher's ''conversion'' to greenery. He explains why everyone who cared about the environment became embattled and, above all, how the old methods of sensible compromise were banished, probably for ever, not least because of the government's obsession with secrecy.
What, then, are the new political means of compelling change on a reluctant parliament? Everything is at stake from welfare to water, from forests to fishing. Where are we now? What are the likely pressures, both internal and from Europe and the rest of the world, to make Britain pass more environmentally sound laws and, perhaps more importantly, to observe them? McCormick provides a gripping picture of the central issues, of the system and of the battleground.
Originally published in 1991
He tells the story of the absolute change in political climate over the last ten years and deciphers the nature of Thatcher's ''conversion'' to greenery. He explains why everyone who cared about the environment became embattled and, above all, how the old methods of sensible compromise were banished, probably for ever, not least because of the government's obsession with secrecy.
What, then, are the new political means of compelling change on a reluctant parliament? Everything is at stake from welfare to water, from forests to fishing. Where are we now? What are the likely pressures, both internal and from Europe and the rest of the world, to make Britain pass more environmentally sound laws and, perhaps more importantly, to observe them? McCormick provides a gripping picture of the central issues, of the system and of the battleground.
Originally published in 1991
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-84630-1 (9780415846301)
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Content
Introduction
1. Environmental Policy in Britain
2. The Environmental Lobby
3. Thatcherism and the Environment
4. Environmental Groups and the Countryside
5. Privatization and Pollution
6. The New Green Society
7. The Environment and the European Community
8. The Changing Environmental Lobby
9. Environmental Politics in Britain
Notes
Index
1. Environmental Policy in Britain
2. The Environmental Lobby
3. Thatcherism and the Environment
4. Environmental Groups and the Countryside
5. Privatization and Pollution
6. The New Green Society
7. The Environment and the European Community
8. The Changing Environmental Lobby
9. Environmental Politics in Britain
Notes
Index