Environmental issues in the United Kingdom

This page lists the issues that the United Kingdom currently has that are related to the environment, such as pollution and contamination.

Issues

Air Pollution

Climate change

According to Lord Stern of Brentford, the flooding and storms in UK in 2014 were clear signs of climate change. Author of the 2006 Stern Review said 2013–2014 weather is part of international pattern and demonstrates urgent need to cut carbon emissions.[1]

Litter

Royal Mail rubber band Everything

Waste

Food waste in the United Kingdom

Soil contamination

References

  1. ↑ Flooding and storms in UK are clear signs of climate change, says Lord Stern The Guardian 13 February 2014

Further reading

  • Agar, Jon. "‘Future Forecast—Changeable and Probably Getting Worse’: The UK Government’s Early Response to Anthropogenic Climate Change." Twentieth Century British History 26.4 (2015): 602-628.
  • Blowers, Andrew. "Transition or Transformation?‐Environmental Policy Under Thatcher." Public Administration 65.3 (1987): 277-294.
  • Carter, Neil. "The party politicisation of the environment in Britain" Party Politics, 12#6 (2006), pp. 747–67.
  • Clapp, B.W. An Environmental History of Britain since the Industrial Revolution (1994).
  • Ditt, Karl. "Nature conservation in England and Germany, 1900-70: forerunner of environmental protection?" Contemporary European History 5#1 (1996), pp. 1-28.
  • Haq, Gary and Alistair Paul. Environmentalism since 1945 (London, 2011)
  • McCormick, John. British Politics and the Environment (1991).
  • Sheail, John. An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain (Basingstoke, 2002).
  • Sims, Paul David. "The Development of Environmental Politics in Inter-War and Post-War Britain" (PhD Dissertation, Queen Mary University of London, 2016) online; Bibliography of secondary sources, PP 312-26.
  • Simmons, I.G. An Environmental History of Great Britain: From 10,000 Years Ago to the Present (Edinburgh, 2001).
  • Sutton, Philip W. Explaining Environmentalism: In Search of a New Social Movement (Aldershot, 2000).


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