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Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance
Matthew Paterson
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Description for Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance
Paperback. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to challenges such as global warming, this work argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures is necessary. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPSL; RNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 328.
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 that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary.
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 that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333968550
SKU
V9780333968550
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99-15
About Matthew Paterson
MATTHEW PATERSON is Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. He has published widely on the politics of climate change, notably Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), and on the global politics of environmental change more generally.
Reviews for Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance
'...an innovative and thoughtful approach to global environmental politics...a point of departure for future critical scholarship.' - Marc Williams, International Affairs '...a fine and lucidly written example of the necessary interdisciplinarity with which the environmental problematic needs to be subjected...will become a standard reference at least in International Relations...This is a good book. It is a book that will be ... Read more