Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813349524 ISBN 13: 9780813349527

Publisher: Westview Press, 2014

Synopsis

Revised and updated throughout, this unique anthology examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives contemporary and classic, activist and scholarly and reflects 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. Seventeen new readings discuss climate justice, environmental peacebuilding, globalization, land grabs, corporate environmentalism, climate adaptation, gender, disaster risk, resilience, and the future of global environmental politics in the wake of the Rio+20” global summit of 2012.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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Revised and updated throughout, this unique anthology examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives and reflects voices of the powerless and powerful. Paradigms of sustainability, environmental security, and ecological justice illustrate the many ways environmental challenges and their solutions are framed in contemporary international debates about climate, water, forests, toxics, energy, food, and biodiversity in the twenty-first century.

Organized thematically, the selections offer a truly global scope. Seventeen new readings explore climate justice, environmental peacebuilding, globalization, land grabs, corporate environmentalism, and the future of global environmental politics in the wake of the Rio+20” global summit of 2012. 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.

"Conca and Dabelko have produced a volume that stimulates and challenges. The diverse views represented in the volume challenge orthodox thinking, making for stimulating reading and class discussion . . . It is essential reading to understanding the dynamics shaping international environmental law and institutions now and in the foreseeable future."
Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute

"Green Planet Blues remains the only indispensable global environmental politics reader. This is a book that has stood the test of time, and it remains an invaluable guide to past and present debates in global environmental politics. It is notable for its clear introduction, concise chapters, and strong representation of voices from the South, and this makes it a book for globally minded students everywhere."
Jon Barnett, University of Melbourne, Australia

Ken Conca is a professor of International Relations and Director of the Global Environmental Politics Program at American University. He is the author and editor of several books on global environmental politics, global governance, peacebuilding, and the politics of water.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is a professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. He also serves as senior advisor to the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

About the Author:

Ken Conca is a professor of International Relations and Director of the Global Environmental Politics Program at American University. He is the author and editor of several books on global environmental politics, global governance, peacebuilding, and the politics of water.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is a professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. He also serves as senior advisor to the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0813349524
• ISBN 13: 9780813349527
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Conca Ken, Dabelko Geoffrey D.