Pete Newell

Globalization and the Environment

Capitalism, Ecology & Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment. The book highlights the relations of power at work that determine whether globalization is managed in a sustainable way and on whose behalf.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780745647227
• ISBN-10: 0745647227
• Artikelnr.: 36259766

Autorenporträt

Peter Newell is professor of international relations at the University of Sussex and director of the Centre for Global Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vi
Acknowledgements viii
Abbreviations x
Tables and Boxes xiii
1 Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power 1
2 The Political Ecology of Globalization 17
3 The Political Economy of Global Environmental Governance: Power(in)
Globalization 34
4 Global Trade and the Environment: Whose Rules Rule? 60
5 Global Production and the Environment: Racing to the Top, Bottom or
Middle? 88
6 Global Finance and the Environment: Gambling on Green 114
7 Conclusions: Ecologizing Globalization/Globalizing Ecology 145
References 160
Index 186