Product Description: Community action is a vital strategy in the fight against climate change and has increasingly informed government policy, academic inquiry and grassroots action since the start of this century. This timely and engaging volume explores both the promise of community-based action in tackling climate change and some of its limitations...read more

Product Description: Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions is about a specific ‘promise’ that participation holds for environmental decision-making. Many of the arguments for public participation in (inter)national environmental policy documents are functional, that is to say they see public participation as a means to an end...read more

Product Description: This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era – that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global warming above the pre-industrial average...read more

Why should we save America's wilderness areas? True and lasting protection for wilderness areas, professor Jo Arney argues, will be borne out of a shared understanding of the answer to this question. Wilderness and the Common Good attempts to provide an answer by examining how wilderness and its preservation enriches all of our lives.Jo Arney is an associate professor of political science and public administration at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. She is also a lead scholar in the creation of a stewardship of public lands course being developed by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.