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UNDERSTANDING THE
ENVIRONMENT AND
SOCIAL POLICY

Edited by Tony Fitzpatrick

First published in Great Britain in 2011 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 6th Floor Howard House Queens Avenue Clifton Bristol BS8 1SD UK Tel +44 (0)117 331 5020 Fax +44 (0)117 331 5367 e-mail

North American office: Policy Press c/o The University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA t: +1 773 702 7700 f: +1 773-702-9756

Policy Press and the Social Policy Association 2011

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ISBN 978 1 44731 983 2

The right of Tony Fitzpatrick to be identified as editor of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.

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Contents

The environmental challenge Susan M. Hodgson and David Phillips

Social challenges: causes, explanations and solutions John Hannigan

Challenges for social policy Tony Fitzpatrick

Challenges to the state Philip Catney and Timothy Doyle

Environmental ethics Alan Carter

Environmental justice: philosophies and practices Tony Fitzpatrick

Environmental policy Tony Fitzpatrick

Health and environment Glenda Verrinder

Planning and the urban environment Stephen M. Wheeler

Transport Michael Cahill

Green jobs Nikolay Angelov and Maria Vredin Johansson

Citizenship and care Sherilyn MacGregor

International development and global poverty Carolyn Snell and Claire Quinn

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Nikolay Angelov holds a PhD in Economics from Uppsala University, Sweden, and since 2006 he has been a post-doctoral researcher there at the Department of Economics. His main research interest is in microeconometrics. In particular, he has worked on discrete choice models with applications to educational choice and firm mergers. He has previously done work on time-series analysis, more specifically unit-root testing.

Michael Cahill is Reader in Social Policy at the University of Brighton, UK. He is the author of The new social policy (1994, Palgrave), The environment and social policy (2002, Routledge) and Transport, environment and society (2010, Open University Press). With Tony Fitzpatrick he edited Environmental issues and social welfare (2002, Blackwell) and Environment and welfare (2002, Palgrave Macmillan). He is currently the reviews editor for the journal Social Policy and Administration.

Alan Carter holds the historic Chair in Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. Previous chairs held have included Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid. Previously, Professor Carter taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Heythrop College (University of London) and University College Dublin. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia and the University of Bucharest. Working principally in political philosophy, moral philosophy and environmental philosophy, he is the author of over 60 articles in academic journals and three books, including A radical green political theory (1999, Routledge).

Philip Catney is Lecturer in Politics at Keele University, UK. His research interests are in the areas of environmental policy, urban regeneration, British public policy and political economy. He is co-editor of Sustainable brownfield regeneration (2007, Blackwell) (with Tim Dixon, Mike Raco and David Lerner) and has had articles published in many journals, including the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, British Politics, Public Administration, Environmental Hazards and the Journal of Environmental Management.

Timothy Doyle is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Keele University, UK, and also Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His most recent works include Environment and politics (2008, with D. McEachern, Routledge), which has been translated into Korean, Turkish and Hindi, Beyond borders (2008, edited with B. Doherty, Routledge) and Crucible for survival (2008, edited with M. Risely, Rutgers University Press). He has been an environmental and human rights activist since the 1980s, is founding co-editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region and founding director of Human and Environmental Security for the Indian Ocean Research Group in New Delhi and Perth.

Tony Fitzpatrick is Reader at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-editor of the journal Policy & Politics and was the principal editor of the three-volume International encyclopaedia of social policy (2006, with Nick Manning, Gill Pascall, Huck-ju Kwon and James Midgley, Routledge). His other recent books include Applied ethics and social problems (2008, The Policy Press), Voyage to utopias (2010, The Policy Press) and the second edition of Welfare theory (2011, Palgrave). He has published extensively in journals such as the Journal of Social Policy, Environmental Politics, the International Journal of Social Welfare and Economy & Society. Three of his books have been translated into foreign languages, including Japanese and Korean translations of Freedom and security (1999, Macmillan).

John Hannigan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Environmental sociology (2006, Routledge) and Fantasy city (1998, Routledge). The latter was nominated for the 1999 2000 John Porter Award of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. Environmental sociology has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. He is presently working on a new book for Polity Press,

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