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The environment is traditionally considered as a valence issue where all political parties endorse the same position and differ only on the degree to which they emphasize it. Our paper challenges this view by arguing that the environment is increasingly perceived as a positional issue. We examine cross-country mass survey data and demonstrate that many voters perceive a trade-off between environmental protection and economic growth. This perception is increasingly reflected in the discourse of political parties. In particular, expert surveys and party manifesto data indicate the existence of anti-environmental positions among radical right/nationalist parties, a finding which challenges the view that the environment is a distinctively left-wing issue. By qualitatively analyzing the most recent national and European election manifestos of thirteen radical right parties in Western Europe we demonstrate the ways in which these parties frame their anti-environmental positions and conclude that analyses of voting behaviour should take into account the positional nature of the issues associated with environmental protection.

The environment is traditionally considered as a valence issue where all political parties endorse the same position and differ only on the degree to which they emphasize it. Our paper challenges this view by arguing that the environment is increasingly perceived as a positional issue. We examine cross-country mass survey data and demonstrate that many voters perceive a trade-off between environmental protection and economic growth. This perception is increasingly reflected in the discourse of political parties. In particular, expert surveys and party manifesto data indicate the existence of anti-environmental positions among radical right/nationalist parties, a finding which challenges the view that the environment is a distinctively left-wing issue. By qualitatively analyzing the most recent national and European election manifestos of thirteen radical right parties in Western Europe we demonstrate the ways in which these parties frame their anti-environmental positions and conclude that analyses of voting behaviour should take into account the positional nature of the issues associated with environmental protection.

Critical of campaign by Western environmental organizations to deter donor countries from providing developing countries with what has historically been a far cheaper and more effective insecticide than alternative methods and describes the relationship between decreased DDT use and a higher incidence of malaria cases in poor countries. Argues that there is no affordable DDT alternative for poor countries to switch to and that continued pressure on them by developed nations and their aid agencies and environmental groups to abandon its use would have negative public health ramifications.

This thesis extends ecocritical thought into the sphere of popular culture, particularly televised and online advertisements, by examining the ways in which environmentalist discourse is appropriated and obfuscated by corporations for promotional purposes. Moreover, it argues that such an appropriation, which paradoxically utilizes environmentalist discourse to promote consumption, is a manifestation of post-environmentalism, a term derived from a critical synthesis of Angela McRobbie's notion of post-feminism and Slavoj Žižek's extended discussions of eco-capitalism.' The critical term functions as a way of semantically differentiating between environmentalism and its co-opted counterpart. Ultimately, through analysis of advertising and promotional campaigns from major corporations, I argue that this trend of appropriation threatens environmentalism as a radical politics by conceptually and literally relegating environmentalist activism to spheres of consumerism and through acts of consumption, which has larger ramifications for all hegemony-challenging, radical politics. --[Leaf ii.] ; The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1890864

Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. This is the first book to analyze the importance of the anti-environmental counter-movement in world politics and its meaning for democratic and accountable deliberation, as well as its importance as a mal-adaptive project that hinders the world's people to rise to the challenges of sustainability.

In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental.

Environmental movements have produced some impressive results, including cleaner air and the preservation of selected species and places. But movements that challenged western prosperity and comfort seldom made much progress, and many radical environmentalists have been unabashed utopianists. In this short guide, Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialisation made conservation sensible, but also drove people to look for meaning in nature even as they consumed its products more relentlessly. Hence Englandled the wa.