International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics

I have over the years reviewed a number of books on the environment: in some I have commented on the stance of the authors and may have compared it with the theoretical position I am coming from. But on the whole I have then considered the book on its merits as a collection of facts. In a way that has been a mythical position; useful but not true. Positions on the environment are not like positions on lumping and splitting in plant taxonomy or theories on the nature of dark matter. One’s position on the environment is a political position,...