Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics

by Ken Conca (Editor), Geoffrey Dabelko (Editor)

Revised and updated throughout, this unique anthology examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives and captures the voices of both the powerless and the powerful. Paradigms of sustainability, environmental security, and ecological justice illustrate the many ways environmental challenges and their solutions are framed in contemporary international debates about climate, water, forests, toxics, energy, food, and biodiversity.

Organized thematically, the selections offer a truly global scope. Seventeen new readings explore climate justice, globalization, land and water grabs, climate change and conflict, China’s international environmental relations, and the future of climate politics in the wake of the Paris Agreement. This book stresses the underlying questions of power, interests, authority, and legitimacy that shape environmental debates, and it provides readers with a global range of perspectives on the critical challenges facing the planet and its people.

This new edition of Green Planet Blues connects directly with a wide-range of upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level courses.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

409 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 8, 2014

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Governmental bureaucrats ganging up to increase the number of items in the published works section of their resume so the tax payers will have to give them an even bigger pension once their retire from their sinecures.