ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICIES

Discussing Environmental Politics and Policies in industrialized countries, one can’t ignore environmental protection because environmental protection plays a vital role in the politics of most of the nations. There are a plenty of environmental problems and policies that exist in the literature of the developed world. These literatures concentrate on the government

The Environmental Politics is more concerned with the four different studies of the environmental politics with a focus on the industrialized countries. Firstly, the evolution of the environmental movements and parties are examined. Secondly, the implementations of the public policy at international and local levels are analyzed.  Thirdly, the ideas generated by the various environmental movements and organizations are commented. Fourthly, the international environmental issues that are of increasing salience are dealt seriously.

In environmental politics the difference between the goals of conservation and of radical reordering is dealt carefully with a radical reordering of political and social preferences. It also aims to explore the interface between the goals of conservation.

The Environmental politics and policy in Australia is divided into three parts by Doyle and Kellow. Firstly they look at the distinguishing features of the environmental issues, before going on to describe the ideologies of the politics. Secondly they focus on policy making which helps in processing the political decision making. Thirdly, the political practice helps in contextualizing the series of case studies.

Doyle and Kelly claim that the environmental politics in Australia seem to have an arrested political development despite the fact environmental movement in Australian political debate has seen prominent attention.

In Massachusetts Institute of Technology there has been a project on Environmental Politics and Policy which mainly deals with the trading off political, economic, and social interests and values. This project has attempted to improve the capacity to devise prominent technical solutions by understanding the environmental policy-making.

There are different policy instruments that are used by the governments to implement their environmental policies. The market based instruments including taxes, tax exemptions, tradable permits and the economic incentives have been proved to be very effective in compliance with the environmental policy.

Though in the Environmental policy and politics arena, the present reliance with the market based framework is controversial and there are many arguments looking for a overarching approach is becoming posted by the prominent environmentalists. For instance the energy consumption in the absence of fossil fuels may be increased by the energy efficiency methods. Aubrey Meyer appeals for a framework based market of contraction and convergence where the ideas like Cap and Share and Sky Trust proposals come into play.

Questions

• What are the four different studies that are concerned in Environmental Politics?
• What is the impact of environmental politics in Australia?