Politicization of Ecological Issues: From Environmental Forms to Environmental Motives
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. How Can We Study Environmental Policies? -- 1.1. Interests and limits of an approach to the environment through policy instruments -- 1.2. Defining the environment -- 1.3. Perception of environmental forms and motives -- 1.4. Perception of institutions in the environment -- 1.5. Emerging environmental policy issues -- 2. Politicization and Institutionalization of the Environment -- 2.1. Environmental motives between singularity and generality -- 2.2. Putting motives into politics by greening -- 2.3. Frames of environmental forms: the contributions of political ecology -- 2.4. Stabilization of patterns by co-production -- 2.5. A framework for analyzing the politics of environmental motives -- 3. Stabilized Motives of Freshwater Quality Control in Europe -- 3.1. The environmental motives of freshwater control policy -- 3.1.1. Self-purification and the sacrificed river, motives for authorizing polluting discharges -- 3.1.2. Fish mortality, a conservative motive for banning pollution -- 3.1.3. Trout, an ambiguous motive between liberalism and nationalism -- 3.1.4. Migratory fish as a motive for banning dams -- 3.1.5. Eutrophication, a European motive -- 3.2. Use of environmental motives in political work -- 3.2.1. Adjustment of political work to the consistency of the environmental motives of the water police -- 3.2.2. Plurality of ontologies of environmental motives in water policing -- 3.2.3. Modalities for implementing the environmental motives of the water quality control in politics -- 4. Motives Under Discussion in Two Water Agencies -- 4.1. The water agencies model -- 4.2. Two water agencies as reflected by their institutional and environmental motives -- 4.2.1. Policy divisions between Seine-Normandie and Rhône-Méditerranée and Corse.