Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies
Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies
Cambridge University Press | March 17, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0521016924 | 268 pages | PDF | 1.4 Mb
Cambridge University Press | March 17, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0521016924 | 268 pages | PDF | 1.4 Mb
Representing the first comprehensive study of its kind, this book evaluates the comparative performance of national environmental policies since the beginning of the modern environmental era. Unlike other comparative studies, it looks directly at the purpose of environmental policy: pollution reduction. Lyle Scruggs presents four major explanations of environmental performance which it evaluates through the comparative statistical analysis of data from seventeen affluent countries. The results often challenge conventional explanations of good performance.