The Birth of the Environment and the Evolution of Environmental Governance
The Birth of the Environment and the Evolution of Environmental Governance
The concept of the environment is today so closely interwoven into political argument that it is hard to imagine a world without it. But the contemporary understanding of the environment as a nature on which we depend, but that threatened by human activity, is a comparatively new creation. This chapter explores the emergence of this modern conception of 'the environment', considers its uptake in political practice, and examines some of its difficulties and ambiguities.
Keywords: the concept of the environment, conceptual innovation, environmental concepts, environmental policy, environmental governance
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