Hayley Stevenson

Global Environmental Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This introduction to global environmental politics examines why environmental challenges occur and how we can effectively respond to them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 888g
• ISBN-13: 9781107121836
• ISBN-10: 1107121833
• Artikelnr.: 48324708

Autorenporträt

Hayley Stevenson is Associate Professor in International Relations at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, and Reader in Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance (2012), Democratizing Global Climate Governance (with John S. Dryzek, Cambridge, 2014) and co-editor of Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics: International Relations and the Earth (with Olaf Corry, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of acronyms
List of figures
Preface
1. Global politics and the environment
Part I. Why Do Environmental Problems Occur?: 2. The tragedy of the commons
3. Population and poverty
4. Capitalism
Part II. Responding to Global Environmental Problems: 5. Conflict and securitisation - water
6. Multilateral diplomacy - sustainable development
7. Transnational governance experiments - climate change
8. Aid and finance - deforestation
9. Individualising responsibility - unsustainable consumption
10. Problem displacement - hazardous substances
11. Resistance and localisation - unsustainable agriculture
12. Appraising global environmental governance
Bibliography
Index.