International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics

Abbey, Edward, b. 29 January 1927, Pennsylvania, USA; d. 14 March 1989, Oracle, Arizona

Acid rain

Aelvoet, Magda, b. 4 April 1944, Steenokkerzeel, Belgium

African Green Parties, Federation of

Agalev

Agarwal, Anil, b. 1948, India

Agenda 21

Agribusiness

Agriculture

Agroecology

Air pollution

Air transportation and infrastructure

Alarm UK

Alliance of Small Island States

Amazonia

Anarchism/eco-anarchism

Animal rights

Antarctica

Anthropocentrism

Anti-environmentalism

Anti-nuclear movements

Anti-roads movement

Appropriate technology

Aral Sea

Arctic

Asbestos

Association of State Green Parties

Aswan Dam

Atomic Energy Commission

Australian environmental groups

Australian environmental law and policy

Australian regulatory agencies

Austrian Greens

Bahro, Rudolf, b. 1935, Berlin, Germany; d. 1997, Berlin

Baltic Sea

Bangladesh

Bari, Judith Beatrice, b. 7 November 1949, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; d. 2 March 1997, Willits, California

Basel Convention

Basic income

BBU

Belgium

Berry, Wendell, b. 5 August 1934, Port Royal, Kentucky, USA

Bhopal disaster

Biodiversity

Biopiracy/bioprospecting

Bioregionalism

Biotechnology

Black Forest

Black Triangle

Blueprint for Survival

Bookchin, Murray, b. 14 January 1921, New York, USA

Brazil

Brazilian Green Party

Brent Spar controversy

British environmental law and policy

British nuclear power industry

British regulatory agencies

Brower, David, b. 1 July 1912, Berkeley, California, USA; d. 5 November 2000, Berkeley

Brownfield sites

Brundtland, Gro Harlem, b. 20 April 1939, Oslo, Norway

Brundtland Commission

Bulgarian Green Party

BUND

Burford, Anne Gorsuch, b. 21 April 1942, Asper, Wyoming, USA

Bürgerinitiativen

Business and the environment

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Canadian environmental law and policy

Canadian environmental ministries/agencies

Canadian Greens

Capitalism

Capra, Fritjof, b. 1 February 1939, Vienna, Austria

Car industry

Carson, Rachel, b. 27 May 1907, Springdale, Pennsylvania, USA; d. 14 April 1964, Silver Springs, Maryland

Central American environmental politics

Chemical industry

Chernobyl

Chile

China

Chipko Andolan Movement

CITES

Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes

Citizens' initiatives/referenda

Citizens Party

Civic science

Civil society

Class

Clean Air Act

Clean Water Act

Climate Action Network

Cloning

Coastal zone management

Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, b. 4 April 1945, Montauban, France

Commission on Sustainable Development

Common Agricultural Policy

Common law/torts

Common pool property resources

Commoner, Barry, b. 28 May 1917, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Communism

Community-right-to-know laws

Conservation biology

Conservation movement

Consumerism

Co-operatives

Coral reefs

Cost-benefit analysis

Council for the Protection of Rural England

Council on Environmental Quality

Counter-culture

Critical theory

Culture and the environment

Cuyahoga River

Daly, Herman E., b. USA

Dams/hydroelectric power

Danube Circle

DDT

Debt-for-nature swaps

Deep ecology

Democracy

Denmark

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Department of the Interior

Development

Dioxins

Disenchantment of nature

Distributive justice

Doomsayers

Douglas, William O., b. 16 October 1898, Maine, Minnesota, USA; d. 19 January 1980, Washington, DC

Dumont, René, b. 13 March 1904, Cambrai, France; d. 18 June 2001

Dust Bowl

Dutch National Environmental Policy Plan

Earth Day

Earth First! (UK)

Earth First! (US)

East and Central Europe

East and Central European Greens

East and Central European nuclear power industry

East Asia

Eco-centrism

Eco-feminism

Eco-philosophy/ecosophy

Eco-socialism

Eco-taxes

Eco-terrorism

Eco-tourism

Ecolo

Ecological debt

Ecological economics

Ecological footprint

Ecological modernization

Ecology

Education, environmental

Ehrlich, Paul, b. 1932, Kansas, USA

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, b. 25 May 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; d. 27 April 1882, Concord

Enclosure

Endangered species

Endangered Species Act

Energy conservation

Energy crisis

Enlightenment

Entropy

Environment Agency

Environmental Defense Fund

Environmental economics

Environmental ethics

Environmental history

Environmental justice

Environmental law and litigation

Environmental management

Environmental movements

Environmental pragmatism

Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental refugees

Environmental research and development

Environmental security

Environmentalism and ecologism

Environmentalism of the poor

Epistemic communities

European Environment Agency

European Environmental Bureau

European Federation of Green Parties

European Union

Everglades

Exotic species

Externalities

Exxon Valdez oil spill

Factory farming

Famines

Federación de Partidos Verdes de las Américas

Federalism and decentralization

Finland

Finnish Green Party

Fischer, Joschka, b. 12 April 1948, Gerabronn, Germany

Fisheries

Food quality, politics of

Foreman, Dave, b. 18 October 1946, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Forest management

Forum for the Future

Fossil fuels

Framework Convention on Climate Change

France

Franklin Dam

Free-market environmentalism

French nuclear power industry

Friends of the Earth

Future studies

Gahrton, Per, b. 1943, Hörby, Sweden

Gaia hypothesis

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, b. 2 October 1869, Porbandar, India; d. 30 January 1948, New Delhi

Garzweiler controversy

Génération Écologie

Genetic engineering, animals

Animals, genetic engineering and the environment

Perspectives in policy and ethics

Genetic engineering, crops

Environmental development issues

Risk regulation and trade

Genetic engineering, humans

Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas, b. 1906, Constanza, Romania; d. 1994

German Ministry of Environment

German nuclear power industry

German pollution control

Gibbs, Lois Marie, b. 1961, New York, USA

Global Climate Coalition

Global Environment Facility

Global environmental governance

Global warming

Globalization

Goldsmith, Edward, b. 8 November 1928, Paris, France

Gore, Albert, b. 31 March 1948, Washington, DC, USA

Gorleben controversy

Gorz, André, b. 1924, Austria

Great Lakes International Joint Commission

Greece

Green accounting

Green bans

Green consumerism

Green Group in the European Parliament

Green parties, us

Green Party, UK

Green political theory

Green revolution

Greenpeace

Greenwashing

Groenen, De

GroenLinks

Gruhl, Herbert, b. 22 October 1921, Gnaschwitz, Germany; d. 26 June 1993, Regensburg, Germany

Grünen, Die

Haavisto, Pekka, b. 23 March 1958, Helsinki, Finland

Hardin, Garrett, b. 21 April 1915, Dallas, Texas, USA

Hazardous and toxic waste management

Health and the environment

Henderson, Hazel, b. 1933, Bristol, UK

Hetch Hetchy Dam

Human rights

Human scale technology

Humanism and the environment

Illich, Ivan, b. 1926, Vienna, Austria

India

Indigenous peoples

Indonesia

Industrialization

Inglehart, Ronald, b. USA

Inspectorate of Pollution

Intentional communities

Intergenerational justice

Intermediate technology

International Atomic Energy Authority

International Convention on the Law of the Sea

International environmental law

International Monetary Fund and neoliberalism

International non-governmental organizations

Intrinsic value

Irish Green Party

Issue attention cycle

Italian green parties

Italy

James Bay hydroelectric project

Japan

Japanese nuclear power industry

Jefferson, Thomas, b. 13 April, 1743 Goochland (now Albemarle county), Virginia, USA; d. 4 July 1826 Monticello, Virginia

Kelly, Petra Karin, b. 19 November 1947, Günzburg/Donau, Germany; d. 1 October 1992, Bonn

Kyoto Conference/Protocol

Kyshtym nuclear accident

Labour/trade unions

Lake Baikal

Lalonde, Brice, b. 10 February 1946, France

Land reform

Land use regulation/planning

Landscape

Lannoye, Paul, b. 22 June 1939, Sprimont, Belgium

Larzac Plateau

Latin American environmental politics

Lead poisoning

Leopold, Aldo, b. 11 January 1887, Burlington, Iowa, USA; d. 21 April 1948, Baraboo, Wisconsin

Less developed countries

Liberalism/liberal democracy

Life cycle assessment

Limits to Growth

Love Canal

Lovins, Amory B. and Hunter, Amory B. Lovins: b. 13 November 1947, Washington, DC, USA, Hunter Lovins: b. 26 February 1950, Middlebury Vermont, USA, Energy researchers and consultants

Luddites

Luxembourg

Maathai, Wangari, b. 1940, Nyeri, Kenya

Mad cow disease/bse

MAI

Malthus, Thomas, b. 13 February 1766, Wooten, Surrey, England; d. 23 December 1834, Haileybury

Mangroves

Marsh, George Perkins, b. 15 March 1801, Woodstock, Vermont, USA; d. 23 July 1882, Vallombrosa, Italy

Marshall, Robert, b. 2 January 1901, New York City, New York, USA; d. 11 November 1939, En route to New York

Mass media and the environment

Max-Neef, Manfred, b. 26 October 1932, Santiago, Chile

McDonald's/‘McLibel’

Meana, Carlo Ripa di, b. 15 August 1929, Pietrasanta, Italy

Mendes, Chico, b. 15 December 1944, Xapuri, Acre, Brazil; d. 22 December 1988

Mercury poisoning

Mexico

Militarism and the environment

Miljöpartiet de Gröna

Mill, John Stuart, b. 20 May 1806, London, England; d. 7 May 1873, Avignon, France

Mining

Monkey-wrenching

Montreal Protocol

Move

Muir, John, b. 21 April 1838, Dunbar, Scotland; d. 24 December 1914, Los Angeles, California, USA

Multinational and transnational corporations

Mumford, Lewis, b. 19 October 1895, Flushing, New York, USA; d. 26 January 1990

Municipal solid waste

Nabu

Nader, Ralph, b. 27 February 1934, Winsted, Connecticut, USA

Naess, Arne, b. 27 January 1912, Oslo, Norway

NAFTA

Narmada Valley development programme

National Audubon Society

National Environmental Policy Act

National parks

National Trust

National Wildlife Federation

Natural capital

Natural Resources Defense Council

Nature

Nature Conservancy

Net energy

Netherlands, the

New Age

New Economics Foundation

New Left

New politics

New social movements

New Zealand

Newly industrializing countries

Nigeria

Nimby

Noble savage, myth of

Non-renewable resources

Non-violent direct action

North Africa and Middle East

North/South divide

Norway

Nuclear energy/nuclear waste management

Ocean dumping

Odum, Eugene, b. 17 September 1913, Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, USA

Ogoni People

Oil pollution

Oilwatch

Organic farming

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Ozone depletion

Pakistan

Paradigms

Parkin, Sara, b. 1946, Aberdeen, Scotland

Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico

PCBs

Peace movements

Peoples' Global Action

Pesticides

Philippines, the

Pinchot, Gifford, b. 11 August 1865, Simsbury,

Policy networks

Political action committees

Political opportunity structures

Polluter pays principle

Population movement and control

Portuguese Green Party

Post-industrial society

Post-modernism

Precautionary principle

Price–Anderson Act

Prisoners' dilemma

Progress

Property rights

Public inquiries

Public opinion and the environment

The strength of environmental support

Quality of life

Rainbow Warrior

Rainforests

Ramblers Association

Reagan, Ronald, b. 6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA

Recycling

Regulatory approaches

Religions and the environment

Renewable energy

Resource mobilization theory

Restoration, ecological

Rhine River Commission

Rifkin, Jeremy, b. 1945, Chicago, USA

Rio Conference 1992

Risk assessment

Risk society

Robertson, James, b. 1928, UK

Robin Wood

Romanticism

Roosevelt, Theodore, b. 27 October 1858, New York, USA; d. 6 January 1919, New York

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, b. 1712, Geneva, Switzerland; d. 1778, Ermenoville, Paris, France

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Ruckelshaus, William, b. 24 July 1932, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Russian Federation/Former Soviet Union

Ideological, cultural and political origins of Soviet environmental destruction

Air

Water

Land

Forests

Desertification

Biodiversity

Conclusions and future prospects

Russian green parties and movements

Russian nuclear power industry

Sagebrush Rebellion

Sahel

Sandoz spill

Santa Barbara oil spill

Scotland

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Sellafield/Windscale

Seveso disaster

Shiva, Vandana, b. 5 November 1952, Dehra Dun, India

Sierra Club

Sierra Club v. Morton

Silkwood, Karen G., b. 19 February, 1946, Longview Texas, USA; d. 13 November, 1974, Crescent, Oklahoma

Simon, Julian, b. 12 February 1932, New Jersey, USA; d. 11 January 1998, Maryland

Singer, Peter, b. 1946, Melbourne, Australia

Snail darter case

Social ecology

Social economy, informal economic activity in

Sociobiology

Soft energy path

Soil Association

Solar energy

South African environmental politics

South East Asian environmental politics

Spaceship Earth

Spain

Spanish environmental movement

Spanish Green Party

Spotted owl controversy

Spretnak, Charlene, b. 1946, Pittsburgh, USA

Steady-state economy

Stewardship

Stockholm Conference

Strong, Maurice, b. 1929, Oak Lake, Manitoba, Canada

Structural adjustment programmes

Sub-saharan africa

Superfund

Sustainability

Sustainable development

Discourses in sustainable development

Sustainable development and the environmental movement

Sweden

Swiss green parties

Takings

Tasmanian Greens

Technology

Technology assessment

Technology transfer

Thoreau, Henry David, b. 12 July 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, USA; d. 6 May 1862

Three Gorges project

Three Mile Island accident

Tourism, environmental impact of

Tradeable emission permits

Transportation

Trittin, Jürgen, b. 25 July 1954, Bremen, Germany

United Nations Development Program

United Nations Environment Programme

United Nations Fund for Population Activities

Urbanization

Utopia/ecotopia

Values Party

Vegetarianism

Verts, les

Voluntary simplicity

Voynet, Dominique, b. 4 November 1958, Montbéliard, France Politician.

Waechter, Antoine, b. 11 February 1949, Mulhouse, France

Wales, Party of

Water politics

Water pollution

Watt, James, b. 31 January 1938, Lusk, Wyoming, USA

Wetlands

Whaling

White, Lynn, Jr, b. 29 April 1907, San Francisco, California, USA; d. 30 March 1987, Los Angeles, California

Whole earth photograph

Wildlife management

Wise-use movement

Women's Environmental Network

World Bank

World Conservation Union

World Health Organization

World Heritage Convention

World Resources Institute

World Trade Organization

World Wide Fund for Nature

Worldwatch Institute

Wuppertal Institute

Xenotransplantation

Yucca Mountain and nuclear wastes

Zahniser, Howard, b. 25 February 1906, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA; d. 5 May 1964, Tionesta, Pennsylvania

Zapatistas/Chiapas

Zero Population Growth

Zoos