Conceptual Innovation and Environmental Policy
Conceptual Innovation and Environmental Policy
This chapter present a general introduction to the issue of conceptual innovation in environmental policy. It argues that attention to concepts is important for understanding argument and practice in the environmental domain. Over the past half century there has been more or less continuous development in the thought categories used to structure discussion of environmental issues. The chapter offers a basic framework for understanding conceptual change in the environmental sphere and presents the outline of the chapters to follow.
Keywords: conceptual innovation, environmental concepts, environmental policy, environmental governance
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