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Paths to a Green World The Political Economy of the Global Environment

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ISBN-10: 0262532719

ISBN-13: 9780262532716

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne

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This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual academic emphasis on international agreements and institutions, it strives to integrate debates within the real world of global policy and the academic world of theory. The book maps out an original typology of four contrasting worldviews of environmental change -- those of market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens -- and uses…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Jennifer Clapp is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo. She is the coauthor of Paths to a Green World (MIT Press, 2005).

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Liu Institute for GlobalIssues at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the award-winning TheShadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment (MIT Press) and otherbooks.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change
The Ecological Consequences of Globalization
The Globalization of Environmentalism
Economic Growth in a World of Wealth and Poverty
Global Trade and the Environment
Global Investment and the Environment
Global Financing and the Environment
Paths to a Green World? Four Visions for a Healthy Global Environment
Notes
References
Index