Global Environmental Politics: Second Edition - Softcover

Porter, Gareth; Brown, Janet Welsh; Haffenzahl, David; Chasek, Pamela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813321824 ISBN 13: 9780813321820

Publisher: Westview Press, 1995

Synopsis

When Global Environmental Politics was first published, the environment was just emerging as a pivotal issue in traditional international relations. Now the environment is a topic central to discussions of security politics and the relationship between foreign and domestic policy—and so much has changed that Gareth Porter and Janet Welsh Brown found themselves rewriting more than half of their original text. With new cases on biodiversity and desertification, this classic work is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of environmental politics on the market.In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualize key topics such as the Rio conference, water security, the biodiversity treaty, and trade in toxics. Environmental concerns from global warming to the ozone layer to whaling are seen as challenges to transnational relations, with governments, NGOs, IGOs, and MNCs all facing the prospect of multilateral interaction to solve a growing global problem.

About this title

About the Author:

Gareth Porter is a consultant to the marine program at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. He currently teaches at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The John Hopkins University. Janet Welsh Brown was a long-time senior research associate at the World Resources Institute, former chair of the board of Friends of the Earth, and formerly the executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund. She has taught a variety of courses in international relations and environmental politics at the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of the District of Columbia, Howard University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Pamela S. Chasek is the co-founder and editor of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin , a reporting service on United Nations environment and development negotiations. The author of numerous publications on environmental negotiations, the United Nations and global environmental politics, she is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program at Manhattan College.

Review:

"A well-seasoned text...best in its field. With more books like this, we stand a better chance of managing planet Earth." -- David Rosenberg, Middlebury College

"My textbook of choice for the clarity of writing, the breadth of its scope and the depth of its discourse." -- Adil Najam, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

"The definitive textbook in its field. Up-to-date, thorough, accurate, and consistently interesting for both students and teachers." -- Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0813321824
• ISBN 13: 9780813321820
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256