Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics

Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics
ISBN-10
0813344115
ISBN-13
9780813344119
Series
Green Planet Blues
Category
Political Science
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2010-01-12
Publisher
Westview Press
Authors
Ken Conca, Geoffrey D. Dabelko

Description

Revised and updated throughout, this unique anthology examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives: contemporary and classic, activist and scholarly, and reflecting voices of the powerless and powerful. Paradigms of sustainability, environmental security, and ecological justice illustrate the many ways environmental problems and their solutions are framed in contemporary international debates about climate, water, forests, toxics, energy, food, biodiversity, and other environmental challenges of the twenty-first century. Organized thematically, the selections offer a truly global scope. Fourteen new readings discuss globalization and environmental change; transnational activist networks; the UN Environment Programme; environment-conflict linkages, including the case of Darfur; environmental peacebuilding; the debate on greening foreign aid; and the linkages between climate change and human rights. This book stresses the underlying questions of power, interests, authority, and legitimacy that shape environmental debates, and it provides readers with a global range of perspectives on the critical challenges facing the planet and its people.

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