Schulze, Peter;
(2022)
Obstacles to Environmental Progress: A U.S. perspective.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Why, when so many people understand the severity of environmental problems, is progress so slow and sustainability such a distant goal? What gets in the way? Perhaps you have immediately thought of several barriers. In Obstacles to Environmental Progress, Peter Schulze identifies 18 practical obstacles that routinely and predictably hinder U.S. progress on existing environmental problems. The obstacles apply to problems small and large and, in most cases, regardless of whether an issue is controversial. Though the book focuses on the U.S., most of the obstacles pertain elsewhere as well. The obstacles fall into three categories: scientific challenges to anticipating and detecting problems; political and economic factors that interfere with responding; and obstacles to effective responses. While all the obstacles are predictable and common, they have not been systematically studied as related phenomena, perhaps because they span a wide range of academic disciplines. In practice, they often arise as surprises that are then addressed in an ad hoc manner. Might they be better understood and thus more readily anticipated and overcome or avoided? The book seeks to hasten environmental progress by forewarning and thus forearming those who are striving or will soon be striving for environmental progress, and by drawing scholarly attention to the obstacles as a set of related phenomena to systematically understand and more quickly overcome. Praise for Obstacles to Environmental Progress: ‘I have never come across another book that gives students such an accessible and helpful guide to the broad scope of the challenges facing an environmentally sound and sustainable future.’ Al Wurth, Lehigh University ‘We’ve long needed something like this: a gazetteer for answering the endless series of objections and overcoming the repetitive obstacles that stand between us and the environmental progress we urgently require.’ Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and founder of 350.org and Third Act
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Obstacles to Environmental Progress: A U.S. perspective |
| ISBN: | 9781800082076 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800082076 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082076 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2022 Images © copyright holders named in captions, 2022 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Schulze, P. C. 2022. Obstacles to Environmental Progress: A U.S. perspective. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082076 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | environment, policy, biology, earth sciences, United States, obstacles to progress, environmental policy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153398 |
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