{{Short description|Study of politics about the environment}} {{About|the discipline|the practice by governments|Environmental policy|the journal|Environmental Politics (journal)}}

'''Environmental politics''' designate both the politics about the environment<ref>Andrew Dobson, ''Environmental Politics: A Very Short Introduction'', Oxford University Press, 2016 ({{ISBN|978-0-19-966557-0}}).</ref> and an academic field of study focused on three core components:<ref name=Carter>Carter, Neil. 2007. ''The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy'', 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-68745-4}}</ref>

* The study of political theories and ideas related to the environment; * The examination of the environmental stances of both mainstream political parties and environmental social movements; and * The analysis of public policymaking and implementation affecting the environment, at multiple geo-political levels.

Neil Carter, in his foundational text ''Politics of the Environment'' (2009), suggests that ''environmental'' politics is distinct in at least two ways: first, "it has a primary concern with the relationship between human society and the natural world" (page 3); and second, "unlike most other single issues, it comes replete with its own ideology and political movement" (page 5, drawing on Michael Jacobs, ed., ''Greening the Millenium?'', 1997).<ref name=Carter/>

Further, he distinguishes between modern and earlier forms of environmental politics, in particular conservationism and preservationism. Contemporary environmental politics "was driven by the idea of a global ecological crisis that threatened the very existence of humanity." And "modern environmentalism was a political and activist mass movement which demanded a radical transformation in the values and structures of society."<ref name=Carter/> ==Journals== Scholarly journals representing this field of study include: * ''Environmental Politics'' * ''Global Environmental Politics''

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Category:Political science Category:Environmental social science