Green Planet Blues

Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics
5. New Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-31981-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 903 g

This book discusses the dominant paradigms and controversies that shaped debate at the time of the Stockholm conference, and in the twenty years between Stockholm and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. It examines the challenges of international cooperation and institutional reform.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conca, Ken

Dabelko, Geoffrey D

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- Introduction: From Stockholm To Sustainability? -- The Debate Begins -- The Limits To Growth -- Environment and Development: The Case of The Developing Countries -- The Tragedy Of The Commons -- Redefining National Security -- Beyond The Tragedy Of The Commons -- The 1992 Earth Summit: Reflections on an Ambiguous Event -- Fight for the Forest -- Two Agendas on Amazon Development -- Ecology and the Structure of the International System -- Rethinking the Ecology-Sovereignty Debate -- Globalization and the Environment: Lessons From the Americas -- Nobel Lecture -- Climate Justice: a New Social Movement For Atmospheric Rights -- Institutions of Global Environmental Governance -- Governance With Multilateral Environmental Agreements: a Healthy or ill-Equipped Fragmentation? -- A Participatory Approach to Strategic Planning -- Life After Rio -- The Rio+20 Summit and its Follow Up -- The Sustainability Debate -- 17 Towards Sustainable Development -- 18 Sustainable Development: A Critical Review -- 19 The New Business Imperative: Valuing Natural Capital -- The Problem of Consumption -- 21 Urban Sustainability And Resilience: Why We Need To Focus On Scales -- From Ecological Conflict to Environmental Security? -- 22 An Uncommon Peace: Environment, Development, And The Global Security Agenda -- From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment -- The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation And National Security -- Environmental Peacebuilding: The Good Water Neighbors Project -- The Violence of Development -- Climate Change at the un Security Council: Conceptual and Procedural Controversies -- Ecological Justice -- The Relationship Between Climate Change and Human Rights -- Gender, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Change Adaptation: A Learning Companion -- Coercing Conservation -- The Real Price of Europe Going Green -- REDD: An Introduction -- Inequality and Environmental Policy

Über Autor(innen)

Ken Conca is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Global Environmental Politics Program at American University. He is the author and editor of several books on global environmental politics, global governance, peacebuilding, and the politics of water.Geoffrey D. Dabelko is a professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. He also serves as senior advisor to the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.