Nation-States and the Global Environment (eBook, PDF)

New Approaches to International Environmental History
Redaktion: Bsumek, Erika Marie; Lawrence, Mark Atwood; Kinkela, David

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Produktbeschreibung

Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind. While climate change has generated the greatest alarm in recent years, other global problems-desertification, toxic pollution, species extinctions, drought, and deforestation, to name just a few-loom close behind. The scope of the most pressing environmental problems far exceeds the capacity of individual nation-states, much less smaller political entities. To compound these problems, economic globalization, the growth of non-governmental activist groups, and the accelerating flow of information have fundamentally transformed the geopolitical landscape. Despite the new urgency of these challenges, however, they are not without historical precedent. As this book shows, nation-states have long sought agreements to manage migratory wildlife, just as they have negotiated conventions governing the exploitation of rivers and other bodies of water. Similarly, nation-states have long attempted to control resources beyond their borders, to impose their standards of proper environmental exploitation on others, and to draw on expertise developed elsewhere to cope with environmental problems at home. This collection examines this little-understood history, providing case studies and context to inform ongoing debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199792535
• Artikelnr.: 39199146

Autorenporträt

Erika Marie Bsumek is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. David Kinkela is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Fredonia. Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Introduction
* Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence
* Part I: Nature, Nation-States, and the Regulatory Dilemma
* 1. Europe's River: The Rhine as Prelude to Transnational Cooperation
and the Common Market, Mark Cioc
* 2. National Sovereignty, the International Whaling Commission, and
the Save the Whales Movement, Kurk Dorsey
* 3. Global Borders and the Fish that Ignore Them: The Cold War Roots
of Overfishing, Mary Carmel Finley
* 4. Making Parks out of Making Wars: Transnational Nature Conservation
and Environmental Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century, Greg Bankoff
* 5. Going Global After Vietnam: The End of Agent Orange and the Rise
of an International Environmental Regime, David Zierler
* 6. The Paradox of U.S. Pesticide Policy during the Age of Ecology,
David Kinkela
* Part II: Nature, Nations, and the Circulation of Knowledge
* 7. The Imperial Politics of Hurricane Prediction: From Calcutta and
Havana to Manila and Galveston, 1839-1900, Gregory T. Cushman
* 8. Biological Control, Transnational Exchange, and the Construction
of Environmental Thought in the United States, 1840-1920, James E.
McWilliams
* 9. Bird Day: Promoting the Gospel of Kindness in the Philippines
during the American Occupation, Janet M. Davis
* 10. Salmon Migrations, Nez Perce Nationalism, and the Global Economy,
Benedict J. Colombi
* 11. The Brazilian Amazon and the Transnational Environment,
1940-1990, Seth Garfield
* 12. International Trash and the Politics of Poverty: Conceptualizing
the Transnational Waste Trade, Emily Brownell
* Afterword: International Systems and Their Discontents, J.R. McNeill