Understanding Global Environmental Politics develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. It argues that the major power structures of world politics are deeply problematic in ecological terms, and that they cannot be easily used to resolve major environmental challenges such as global warming. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to such challenges, therefore, the book argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary.
Understanding Global Environmental Politics develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. It argues that the major power structures of world politics are deeply problematic in ecological terms, and that they cannot be easily used to resolve major environmental challenges such as global warming. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to such challenges, therefore, the book argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary.
MATTHEW PATERSON is Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. He has published widely on the politics of climate change, notably Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), and on the global politics of environmental change more generally.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Understanding Global Environmental Politics Realism, Liberalism and the Origins of Global Environmental Change The 'Normal and Mundane Practices of Modernity': Global Power Structures and the Environment Space, Domination, Development: Sea Defences and the Structuring of Environmental Decision Making Car Trouble Fast Food, Consumer Cultures and Ecology Conclusion: Globalization, Governance and Resistance Bibliography Index
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Understanding Global Environmental Politics Realism, Liberalism and the Origins of Global Environmental Change The 'Normal and Mundane Practices of Modernity': Global Power Structures and the Environment Space, Domination, Development: Sea Defences and the Structuring of Environmental Decision Making Car Trouble Fast Food, Consumer Cultures and Ecology Conclusion: Globalization, Governance and Resistance Bibliography Index
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