Introduction

Part II examines national and international politics of the environment. In his historical investigation of environmental concern in Britain between 1919 and 1949, Ian Coates shows how this took a variety of forms, involving groups from ail sectors of society. He also draws parallels between the diversity of environmental concern in this earlier period and some contemporary forms of environmentalism. Âse Grpdeland focuses on the Ukrainian Greens and seeks to evaluate the charge that the movement principally represents nationalist and separatist tendencies. After considering the influence of culture and religion on environmental pohtics, Grpdeland argues that the incorporation of national sentiments by the Ukrainian Greens has not taken a negative or parochial form. Rather this can be seen as part of an attempt to reassert local democratic control over an environment seriously damaged by the central command economy of the Soviet Union. Raymond Bryant's examination of forestry management regimes in Burma, Thailand and Indonesia explores the relationship between colonial and postcolonial practices. He shows that the policies of these countries need to be understood in terms of political and economic factors which affect the control of forest resources at local, national and international levels.