Simon Nicholson, Paul Wapner

Global Environmental Politics

From Person to Planet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Today's students want to understand not only the causes and character of global environmental problems like climate change, species extinction, and freshwater scarcity, but also what to do about them. This book offers the most comprehensive, fair-minded, accessible, and forward-looking text for introducing students to the challenge of global environmental protection. Drawing on a diverse range of voices, the book sequentially explains our current predicament, examines what is being done to respond at a variety of levels from the international to the local, and outlines different, relevant strategic choices for genuine political engagement. Developed by two top researchers and master teachers of global environmental politics, the book brings together sharply written introductory essays with tightly edited selections from a broad cross section of thinkers to provide a text that will excite and educate students of global environmental affairs. In addition, the book introduces a series of exercises designed specifically to help students draw connections between their own lives and the broader challenge of global sustainability. Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet finally answers the question of how to teach students about environmental harm with a sober sense of ecological reality, a firm grasp on politics, and an optimistic look toward the future. Features of This Innovative Text Reader: Original section introductions by the volume editors cover key topics such as the four major planetary challenges (climate, extinction, water, and food); leading causes of environmental harm; the role of states, markets, and civil society; race, class, and geopolitical difference; and the value of thinking strategically and using a broad political imagination. Carefully selected and judiciously edited readings from a wide range of sources feature high-profile authors from popular as well as specialist media. Action-oriented exercises engage students in being part of the solution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781612056494
• ISBN-10: 1612056490
• Artikelnr.: 40620300

Autorenporträt

Simon Nicholson is Assistant Professor and Director of the Global Environmental Politics program in the School of International Service at American University. His research, teaching, and public engagement center on global food politics and the politics of emerging technologies, with a focus most recently on climate geoengineering technologies. Paul Wapner is Professor of Global Environmental Politics in the School of International Service at American University and author of Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism and Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics. His research focuses on Environmental Thought, Transnational Environmental Activism, Environmental Ethics, and Global Environmental Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Living in an Environmental Age PART I: STATE OF THE PLANET
Section 1: Species Unbound: Humanity's Environmental ImpactIntroduction 1.
Enter the Anthropocene, Elizabeth Kolbert 2. State of the Species, Charles
C. Mann3. Humanity's Potential, Alex SteffenSection 1 Exercise: The Time
MachineSection 2: Four Planetary Challenges: Climate, Extinction, Water,
and FoodIntroduction 4. Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, Bill
McKibben5. End of the Wild, Stephen M. Meyer6. Where Has All the Water
Gone? Maude Barlow7. The Global Food Crisis, Lester BrownSection 2
Exercise: Fries with That? Tracing Personal ConsumptionSection 3: Causes of
Environmental HarmIntroduction 8. Too Many Americans? Thomas Friedman 9. A
Finite Earth? Bill McKibben 10. Consequences of Consumerism, Erik
Assadourian11. Use Energy, Get Rich, and Save the Planet, John
TierneySection 3 Exercise: Where do Babies Come From? The Causes of
Population GrowthPART II: STATES, MARKETS, AND SOCIETY: GEOPOLITICAL
RESPONSES TO UNSUSTAINABILITY Section 4: International State
SystemIntroduction12. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development13.
Brief History of International Environmental Cooperation, Jennifer Clapp
and Peter Dauvergne14. What's Wrong with Climate Politics? Paul Harris15.
State Sovereignty Endangers the Planet, Richard FalkSection 4 Exercise:
Talking with the United NationsSection 5: EconomyIntroduction16. The
Promise of Corporate Environmentalism, Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister17.
Environmental Economics 101: Overcoming Market Failures,