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"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...
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"This resource features the latest information on the global environmental crisis in the twentieth century. Ideal for student research, it examines the main causes of environmental concern and the key players who raised the environmental consciousness of the public. Following a timeline of key events and a historical overview of the environmental crisis, topical essays examine each of the major areas of environmental concern: our vanishing wilderness,...
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The pace of human progress accelerated profoundly in the twentieth century, spawning revolutionary advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry. Between 1900 and 2000, the world's population quadrupled, and production and consumption of goods increased by a factor of twelve. In The State of the Earth, award-winning historian Paul K. Conkin offers a balanced, nuanced, and ultimately hopeful assessment of the major environmental challenges that must...
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Over the last 60 years, environmental politics and policy have shaped the modern world and sparked some of the most controversial and complicated disputes in American history. On issues from toxic chemicals, endangered species, and pollutio Black-and-white illustrations. Maps. Index. Bibliographies. Chronologies. Web sites. Primary sources. Tables.
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"Rosenbaum's classic, comprehensive text once more provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues. Notable revisions include: A completely revamped energy chapter covering conventional energy policy as well as a comparative examination of alternatives to current energy production. ; Expanded discussion of current U.S. climate change policy with attention...
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"This book presents an unique method of looking at environmental policy formulation and implementation. Honadle outlines alternative approaches for implementing policies designed to protect natural resources and promote sustainable development practices. He expertly moves policy making from a universalistic one-size-fits-all position, to an approach that is tied to the context of the people or place for which the policy is designed, and therefore...
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The Asia environmental correspondent for the "Guardian" delivers a fascinating, frontline account of the current environmental crisis in China, exploring how Beijing is balancing economic growth with sustainability and whether China will "emerge as the world's first green superpower" or tip our species "over the environmental precipice."
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Garrett Hardin's seminal essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" appeared in 1968 and has been at the center of the debate on commonly owned ground or resources such as Western public grazing or the oceans. This is the second edition of a book exploring the issues raised in Hardin's essay. As scarce resources are increasingly strained. It is ever more crucial to identify those resources which are held in common and are therefore prone to "tragic" waste...
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This text brings together top scholars to evaluate the continuities and changes in U.S. environmental policy since the late 1960s and to discuss their implications for the early twenty-first century, helping students decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape environmental politics. -- Amazon.com.
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Investigates some of the most critical environmental and earth science questions of the 21st century. Are populations soaring out of control? Are we running out of water? Will there be enough water and food for future generations? Global warming - a false alarm or a gathering storm? And why we should take these issues seriously before it is too late.
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