"Today's beleaguered yet expanding carbon market represents a type of relationship between economy and ecology scarcely imaginable forty years ago. This collection brings together a comprehensive array of perspectives to critically scrutinise the development and on-going maintenance of this...

As they provide a negotiating space for a diversity of interests, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) are an increasingly popular mode of involving civil society in resource management decisions. This book focuses on water management to take a positive, if critical, look at this phenomenon....

1. Exiting the multiple crises through 'green' growth? / Elmar Altvater and Margot Geiger -- 2. The end of the black epoch : fossil fuel peaks / Werner Zittel -- 3. The stuff of the green revolution : nitrogen, potassium and phosphate / Werner Zittel -- 4. Mining between comeback and dead end /...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: MODERNIZATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMOCRATIZATION -- 1 Reflexive Developmentalism? Toward an Environmental Critique of Modernization -- 2...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Complex Environmental Problems and the Quest for Policy Integration -- 2 Analysis of Policy Integration: Conceptual and...