The book comprises thirteen papers on environmental issues, with particular reference to future developments (for example, new technologies, paths in social and political theory, methodologies). It is divided into three sections, moving from social constructions of 'the environment' in the first section to questions of green political theory and practice in the second, and concluding with issues of environmental risk and future technologies. The work is interdisciplinary, with contributors ranging from philosophers to human geographers.

Foreword; Ted Benton Preface Notes on the Contributors SECTION ONE: CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT Picking at the Lock of Economic Reductionism; P.H.G.Stephens Employing Qualitative Methods in the Assessment of Environmental Policy; M.Stroh Think Local, Act Global: Discourses of Environment and Local Protest; J.Jordan and N.Gilbert SECTION TWO: IDEOLOGY INTO PRACTICE Green Politics and Intergenerational Justice: Posterity, Progress and the Environment; J.Barry Green Political Strategy and the State; M.Paterson The Tragedy of Competitive Deregulation: Investment Codes, The World Bank, and the Environment; D. Hogg The Future of Environmental Direct Action: A Case for Tolerating Disobedience; N.B.Fairweather Environmental 'Whistleblowers'; S.Homewood and D.Lewis Utopias and Environmentalist Ambivalence Concerning Science; E.Berglund SECTION THREE: RISK AND FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES Biotechnology Regulation: De/Politicizing Uncertainty; L.Levidow and S.Carr A Contextual Approach to the Waste Disposal System: the Case of Incineration; B.Victor Bratley 'Take My Breath Away': Can Technical Fixes Make Cars Environmentally Friendly; A.Neale Evil Developers and Green Fairies; S.Guy Bibliography Index