Book Description
Revised to include new discussions on climate justice, green political parties, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles.
Author : Neil Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108472303
Revised to include new discussions on climate justice, green political parties, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles.
Author : Neil Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113946440X
The continuous rise in the profile of the environment in politics reflects growing concern that we may be facing a large-scale ecological crisis. The new edition of this highly acclaimed textbook surveys the politics of the environment, providing a comprehensive and comparative introduction to its three components: ideas, activism and policy. Part I explores environmental philosophy and green political thought; Part II considers parties and environmental movements; and Part III analyses policy-making and environmental issues at international, national and local levels. This second edition has been thoroughly updated with new and revised discussions of many topics including the ecological state, ecological citizenship, ecological modernisation and the Greens in government and also includes an additional chapter on 'Globalisation, Trade and the Environment'. As well as considering a wide variety of examples from around the world, this textbook features a glossary, guides to further study, chapter summaries and critical questions throughout.
Author : Neil Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521469944
The rising profile of the environment in politics reflects growing public concern that we may be facing a large-scale ecological crisis. This unique textbook surveys the politics of the environment, providing a comprehensive and comparative introduction to ideas, activism and policy. Part One explores environmental philosophy and green political thought, assessing the relationship between 'green ideas' and other political doctrines. Part Two considers parties and movements, including the development of green parties from protest parties, the response of established political parties to the environmental challenge, and the evolution of the environmental movement. Part Three analyses public policy-making and environmental issues at the international, national and local levels. As well as considering a wide variety of examples from around the world, this important new textbook includes glossary, lists of key issues, chapter summaries and guides to further study.
Author : James Connelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134529872
This textbook is at the forefront of its field and is an invaluable resource for undergraduates studying politics and environment studies. The most comprehensive book on the subject, this new edition has been expanded and revised.
Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674039963
A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a “commonsense” division—which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of “mononaturalism” and “multiculturalism,” Latour develops the idea of “multinaturalism,” a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by “diplomats” who are flexible and open to experimentation.
Author : Harry Verhoeven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0190916680
Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about them.
Author : Lorraine Elliott
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2004-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814722180
Human activity is changing the global environment on a scale unlike that of any other era. Environmental deterioration is now a global issue—ecologically, politically, and economically—that requires global solutions. Yet there is considerable disagreement over what kinds of strategies we should adopt in order to halt and reverse damage to the global ecosystem. What kinds of international institutions are best suited to dealing with global environmental problems? Why are women and indigenous peoples still marginalized in global environmental politics? What are the consequences of the global ecological crisis for economic and security policies? The Global Politics of the Environment makes sense of the often seemingly irreconcilable answers to these questions. It focuses throughout on the tensions between mainstream strategies, which seek to build support for reforms through existing institutions, and radical critiques, which argue that environmental degradation is a symptom of a dysfunctional world order that must itself be transformed if we are to meet the challenge of saving the planet.
Author : Timothy Doyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134603088
Published in the year 2001, Environment and Politics is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography.
Author : Ronald B Mitchell
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412919746
This title provides graduate students with a sophisticated overview of this increasingly important field, outlining the causes of international environmental problems and assessing the ways in which political responses have been formulated, implemented and evaluated.
Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262600590
Globalization today is as much a problem for international harmony as it is a necessary condition of living together on our planet. Increasing interconnectedness in ecology, economy, technology, and politics has brought nations and societies into even closer contact, creating acute demands for cooperation. Earthly Politics argues that in the coming decades global governance will have to accommodate differences even as it obliterates distance, and will have to respect many aspects of the local while developing institutions that transcend localism. This book analyzes a variety of environmental-governance approaches that balance the local and the global in order to encourage new, more flexible frameworks of global governance. On the theoretical level, it draws on insights from the field of science and technology studies to enrich our understanding of environmental-development politics. On the pragmatic level, it discusses the design of institutions and processes to address problems of environmental governance that increasingly refuse to remain within national boundaries. The cases in the book display the crucial relationship between knowledge and power—the links between the ways we understand environmental problems and the ways we manage them—and illustrate the different paths by which knowledge-power formations are arrived at, contested, defended, or set aside. By examining how local and global actors ranging from the World Bank to the Makah tribe in the Pacific Northwest respond to the contradictions of globalization, the authors identify some of the conditions for creating more effective engagement between the global and the local in environmental governance.