Contemporary environmental politics : from margins to mainstream / edited by Piers H.G. Stephens with John Barry and Andrew Dobson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Theory. The high ground is green / Robert E. Goodin ; Social ecology and 'the man question' / Ariel Salleh ; Green liberalism: nature, agency and the good / Piers H.G. Stephens ; Habermas and green political thought: two roads converging / Robert J. Brulle. -- Pt. II. Green movements. Why did New Zealand and Tasmania spawn the world's first green parties? / Stephen L. Rainbow ; Environmentalism and the global divide / Eric Laferrière ; Strategies of resistance at the Pollok Free State road protest camp / Ben Seel. -- Pt. III. Green political economy. Free market environmentalism: friend or foe? / Robyn Eckersley ; Public choice, institutional economics, environmental goods / John O'Neill ; Ecological modernisation, ecological modernities / Peter Christoff. -- Pt. IV. Policy. Power, politics and environmental inequality: a theoretical and empirical analysis of the process of 'peripheralisation' / Andrew Blowers and Pieter Leroy ; The global environment facility in its North-South context / Joyeeta Gupta ; Explaining national variations of air pollution levels: political institutions and their impact on environmental policy-making / Markus M.I. Crepaz ; Citizens' juries and valuing the environment: a proposal / Hugh Ward..