非常に多くの側面を持つ今日の環境政治学について、その起源、主張、団体、国際的重要性など、主要な領域を詳細に解説する一冊です。さまざまな事例を交え、歴史的経緯も検討しつつ、未来を見据えた議論を展開します。環境政治学が政治の主流派に組み込まれる日は到来するのか、あるいは人が環境に与えた甚大な影響によって、産業革命以来の私たちの社会生活を支配してきた成長を前提とした政治が転換を迫られる日が来るのか考察します。
　　

• Covers all the principal areas of environmental politics: its origins; ideas; parties; and the international dimension
• Discussses environmental politics in its historical and comparative context
• Contains a wide range of lively examples that illustrate the issues environmental politics faces

   
Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one of accommodation. 
  
In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Dobson offers a lively and comprehensive commentary on the many facets of environmental politics today. Looking towards the future, he asks whether environmental politics will be comfortably accommodated by mainstream politics, or whether the advent of the Anthropocene - a whole new geological epoch driven by human impact on the environment - will herald a break with the politics of growth that has dominated social life since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.