Green Germany?, Flexibler Einband

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'Green Germany' is regularly invoked in public and scholarly debates. It connects a national framework with environmental issues, even suggesting a specific German path in dealing with questions of the Umwelt. At a time of planetary crisis, what should we make of this?

In studying environmental governance, the case of Germany provides a valuable vantage point for reconsidering the place of scales other than the global. This volume takes up the idea of a particularly 'green' country to critically explore how local, national, and transnational scales interact in the age of human-induced climate change.

The chapters explore how institutional actors and civic groups have shaped and contested environmental governance in various ways. The volume draws on a range of disciplines to examine how these trajectories of governance and contestation have evolved since the 1970s. The authors thus present new research and novel insights about environmental governance and bring the continued relevance of local and national perspectives to the fore.