Globalization and the Environment

Name: Globalization and the Environment
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ISBN: 9780742556591

ISBN-10: 074255659X

ISBN-13: 9780742556591

Edition: 2013

Authors: Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley

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This text by respected senior scholars offers students a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven global political response. The authors cover key global environmental problems while focusing especially on the most challenging global environmental problem of all: climate change. They provide conceptual linkages between economic globalization and environmental degradation—focusing in particular on trade and environment—and the globalization of the system of sovereign states. Finally, they critically explore the challenges of environmental governance in a world of global capitalism and sovereign states.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.87" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Robyn Eckersley is Reader/Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2004).



Preface



A World Fit for Us All


Crisis? What Crisis?


One Planet, Many Globalizations


The Global Dimensions of Environmental Change


Our Core Propositions



A Short History of Globalization and the Environment


Introduction


Discovering Limits


Remaking the Planet-The Long Fuse of Modernization


The Short Fuse-Globalization in the 20th Century


Consuming the Planet


Trading Off the Planet


Conclusion-The Return of Limits



An Overheated Planet


Introduction


The Long History of Global Warming


Turning Up the Heat, Sounding the Alarm


Adjusting the Thermostat? The Struggle for Climate Governance


Conclusion-The Future of Climate Governance



Remaking Nature: Biodiversity in Peril


The Doomsday Vault


The Biodiversity Crisis


The Long Fuse of Modernization: Ecological Imperialism


Shortening the Biodiversity Fuse: The Global Phase of Modernization


Why Should We Care?


Governing Biodiversity



Governing the Planet


The Failures of Global Environmental Governance


Reflexive Modernization, Reflexive Globalization


Future Challenges to a Green World Order


Notes


Suggested Reading


Index


About the Authors