Global Ecopolitics

Author : Peter J. Stoett
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781487587895

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Global Ecopolitics by Peter J. Stoett Pdf

Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather events, high-level climate change diplomacy, special UN days of celebration, and popular media references to impending ecological collapse, most students are not exposed to the detailed presentation and analysis of the international relations and diplomacy of environmental policy-making. Comprehensive and accessibly written for first-year or second-year undergraduates, the second edition of Global Ecopolitics provides students with a panoramic view of the policymakers and the structuring bodies involved in the creation of environmental policies. Detailing a considerable amount of environmental activity since its initial 2012 publication, this up-to-date second edition uses an applicable framework of systemic analysis and important case studies that push students to form their own conclusions about past efforts, present needs, and future directions.

Author : Philippe Le Prestre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317191278

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Global Ecopolitics Revisited by Philippe Le Prestre Pdf

Faced with worsening environmental indicators, cooperation hurdles, and the limited effectiveness of current institutions, reforming international environmental governance has proven elusive, despite various diplomatic initiatives at the United Nations level over the last two decades. Overcoming the current dead end, however, may rest less in devising new arrangements than in challenging how the problem has been approached. Presenting a multifaceted exploration of some of the key issues and questions in global ecopolitics, this book brings together recent advances in research on global environmental governance in order to identify new avenues of inquiry and action. Each chapter questions elements of the current wisdom and covers a topic that lies at the heart of global environmental governance, including the reasons for engagement, the evolving relationship between science and policy, the potential and limits of the European Union as a key actor, the role of developing and emergent countries, and the contours of a complex governance of international environmental issues. Laying the foundation for rethinking at a time of great transformation in global ecopolitics, this book will be important reading for students of environmental politics and governance. It will also be of relevance to policy makers with an interest in going beyond the prevailing discourse on this crucial topic.

Author : Peter Stoett,Shane Mulligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 1487587929

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This book introduces students to the complex policy dilemmas related to solving global environmental problems today.

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780595501526

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Climate of Ecopolitics by Paul Taylor Pdf

Climate of Ecopolitics is a vital Citizen's Guide that sorts out the millions of bits of information on global climate change. Global warming has been described as both the world's biggest crisis, and the biggest hoax-neither is true. This book explores the history, histrionics, psychology, false prophets and marketers of the environmental movement. A provocative view of global ecopolitics is presented; where governments demand radical and costly action on climate change and global warming. And sadly, where the due diligence of climate science cause-and-effect findings are an inconvenience- ". green group propaganda have distorted climate change far beyond rational scientific discovery or discourse."-LOS ANGELES TIMES ". we spend as much on environmental protection as on national defense and homeland security combined."-THE WALL STREET JOURNAL This book also examines the key government policies for dealing with the issues of global climate change and climate science.

Author : Dennis Pirages
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4376704

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The New Context for International Relations by Dennis Pirages Pdf

Author : Philippe Le Prestre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317191285

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Global Ecopolitics Revisited by Philippe Le Prestre Pdf

Faced with worsening environmental indicators, cooperation hurdles, and the limited effectiveness of current institutions, reforming international environmental governance has proven elusive, despite various diplomatic initiatives at the United Nations level over the last two decades. Overcoming the current dead end, however, may rest less in devising new arrangements than in challenging how the problem has been approached. Presenting a multifaceted exploration of some of the key issues and questions in global ecopolitics, this book brings together recent advances in research on global environmental governance in order to identify new avenues of inquiry and action. Each chapter questions elements of the current wisdom and covers a topic that lies at the heart of global environmental governance, including the reasons for engagement, the evolving relationship between science and policy, the potential and limits of the European Union as a key actor, the role of developing and emergent countries, and the contours of a complex governance of international environmental issues. Laying the foundation for rethinking at a time of great transformation in global ecopolitics, this book will be important reading for students of environmental politics and governance. It will also be of relevance to policy makers with an interest in going beyond the prevailing discourse on this crucial topic.

Author : M. Smouts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403981851

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Tropical Forests, International Jungle by M. Smouts Pdf

Marie-Claude Smouts looks at the issue of rain forest depletion and global environmental policies. Beginning with how the issue entered the world stage in the 1980s despite alarms over the issue in the 1950s, Tropical Forests, International Jungle explores the complexities of what are tropical forests, what role they play not only in environmentalism but in trade, health care, and almost every facet of natural and social life for those living there and beyond. Although for most in the developed world tropical forests have gained a status of part of our world heritage, these forests are not really part of the global commons or a global public good. Developing nations maintain control over the forests within their borders and often use the forests as they see fit. The international system for mediating the issue is a fractured group of non-governmental organizations and transnational networks, often with competing views of how to manage tropical forests. Despite this seemingly grim picture, Smouts is optimistic. A changing world view toward forest depletion is influencing countries both North and South. Although forests will be used commercially, it is a dynamic process that should maintain them far into the future.

Author : Sachchidanand Tripathi,Rahul Bhadouria,Rishikesh Singh,Pratap Srivastava,Rajkumari Sanayaima Devi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031480980

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Eco-Politics and Global Climate Change by Sachchidanand Tripathi,Rahul Bhadouria,Rishikesh Singh,Pratap Srivastava,Rajkumari Sanayaima Devi Pdf

This book provides an in-depth insight into the ecological perspective on a number of ongoing issues pertaining to security, the economy, the state, global environmental governance, development, and the environment. The chapters critically compare and analyze the role of global eco-politics in understanding and sorting out issues linked with climate change. Furthermore, it presents a contemporary and accessible description of why we need to embrace eco-politics in order to address the various ecological challenges that we face in the current changing climate scenario.

Author : Thom Kuehls
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816624682

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Beyond Sovereign Territory by Thom Kuehls Pdf

How should we think about politics in a world where ecological problems - from the deforestation of the Amazon to acid rain - transcend national boundaries? This is the timely and important question addressed by Thom Kuehls in Beyond Sovereign Territory. Contending that the sovereign territorial state is not adequate to contain or describe the boundaries of ecopolitics, the author reorients our thinking about government, nature, and politics. Kuehls argues that changes in technology and the scope of governmental aims have rendered conventional ecological and internationalist aims anachronistic - and ultimately ineffective - in the face of impending environmental collapse. He questions the process by which land is transformed into an object of sovereignty - into "territory" - demonstrating how representations of political space that are premised on territorial sovereignty fail to come to terms with much of what is involved in ecopolitics. Ultimately, Kuehls critiques an orientation that privileges a certain utilitarian relationship between humans and nonhuman nature, one in which the earth is largely interpreted as given to humans. Deeply humanistic and challenging conventional wisdom, Beyond Sovereign Territory will be of interest to readers of environmental politics, geography, international politics, and political theory.

Author : Nick Heffernan,David A. Wragg
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527551329

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Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics by Nick Heffernan,David A. Wragg Pdf

Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics brings together a series of new reflections on historical and current ecological and environmental predicaments. By way of critical interventions in environmental thought, and through engagements with literary, visual, architectural, philosophical, and more general cultural studies scholarship, this collection of essays by an international panel of writers breaks new interpretative ground. While techno-science has in some quarters been elevated to a master discourse of humanity’s salvation, charged with providing a magical ‘fix’ for planetary ecological dilemmas, the focus of our volume is on the importance of cultural reflection for bringing matters of local and global import to light. Moving from the abstractions of eco-critical utopianisms to the concrete identity of the land in the poetry of John Clare, from British Petroleum’s attempts to re-brand climate change to examples of eco-architecture, and much more besides, these essays exemplify ways in which eco-political thought and practice might now be theorized. The collection is framed by a substantial editors’ introduction which offers but one contextualization of the ideas and critical trajectories that follow. Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics will allow readers to discover original intersections and argumentative cross-references across contested terrains in a world increasingly troubled by ecological crises.

Author : Philippe Le Prestre,Peter Stoett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351955362

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Bilateral Ecopolitics by Philippe Le Prestre,Peter Stoett Pdf

The context in which environmental policy decision-making occurs has changed, resulting from widening environmental problems, increased demands from groups and citizens, continuing pressure on the continent's resources and normative shifts. The complexity of current issues is related to an even broader contextual shift: the globalization of environmental issues exacerbated by trade liberalization, especially on a regional level and the potential contradictions between trade and the environmental international agenda that this implies. This volume studies the new dimensions of resource conflict between Canada and the United States, accounting for the emergence of new bilateral environmental issues and detailing how trade liberalization has fostered both disputes and policy convergence. It also examines the recent shifts in America towards a unilateral foreign policy and how this affects active Canadian diplomacy Ideal as a resource tool for students and academics, this book will be a key resource in the areas of global governance, US-Canadian foreign policy and environmental policy.

Author : Roberto Pereira Guimarães
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555872433

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The Ecopolitics of Development in the Third World by Roberto Pereira Guimarães Pdf

Equally a study of the ecological foundations of political systems and an analysis of how a particular Third World political system, Brazil's, addresses environmental issues, this book explores the institutional and political dimensions of environmental problems in developing countries. Roberto Guimaraes discusses the theoretical linkage between ecology and political science, presents a historical analysis of those linkages in Brazil, and looks at the structure for environmental policy formation and implementation in Brazil through a case study of the Special Secretariat for the Environment (SEMA).

Author : M. Smouts
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1403962030

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Tropical Forests, International Jungle by M. Smouts Pdf

Marie-Claude Smouts looks at the issue of rain forest depletion and global environmental policies. Beginning with how the issue entered the world stage in the 1980s despite alarms over the issue in the 1950s, Tropical Forests, International Jungle explores the complexities of what are tropical forests, what role they play not only in environmentalism but in trade, health care, and almost every facet of natural and social life for those living there and beyond. Although for most in the developed world tropical forests have gained a status of part of our world heritage, these forests are not really part of the global commons or a global public good. Developing nations maintain control over the forests within their borders and often use the forests as they see fit. The international system for mediating the issue is a fractured group of non-governmental organizations and transnational networks, often with competing views of how to manage tropical forests. Despite this seemingly grim picture, Smouts is optimistic. A changing world view toward forest depletion is influencing countries both North and South. Although forests will be used commercially, it is a dynamic process that should maintain them far into the future.

Author : Fatemeh Khanghaei Shafiei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984
ISBN : UCR:31210008357830

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Global Ecopolitics by Fatemeh Khanghaei Shafiei Pdf

Author : H. Louise Davis,Karyn Pilgrim,Madhudaya Sinha
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498519960

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The Ecopolitics of Consumption by H. Louise Davis,Karyn Pilgrim,Madhudaya Sinha Pdf

Today’s highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost, increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.