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 Green Planet BluesEnvironmental Politics From Stockholm To Johannesburg, Third Editionby Geoffrey Dabelko, Ken Conca Mar 18, 2004
DescriptionThe revised and updated third edition of this cutting-edge collection brings together classic readings and important new material on global environmental politics. In selections chosen for their authority and edited to preserve their integrity, Green Planet Blues examines international environmental controversies from a diversity of viewpoints and value orientations, ranging from elite political actors and intergovernmental organizations to social-movement activists and citizens around the world. Paradigms of sustainability, environmental security, and ecological justice are used to explain topics ranging from deforestation, toxic dumping, and watershed degradation to transboundary pollution and the global commons. Green Planet Blues is an essential part of any course in environmental studies and international relations. This third edition features new material on globalization and the environment, social movement activism, the World Bank, the WTO, 'stakeholder' approaches to international environmental cooperation, and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Each section has been supplemented with critical thinking exercises; and a book-related web site provides links to a wide array of suggested readings and Internet resources. Reviews"The third edition of Green Planet Blues still provides the best and most lively introduction to the study of global environmental politics. Using Stockholm and Johannesburg as two bookends, the editors have assembled a rich and diverse array of voices that capture all of the key ideas, actors, conflicts and themes in this burgeoning field. Conca and Dabelko's introduction also provides an excellent orientation to both text and context, including the normative debates concerning the core paradigms of sustainability, environmental security and ecological justice." "As a professor of environment and development, I would be lost without Conca and Dabelko's Green Planet Blues. This Third Edition builds gracefully from the must-read classics of the 1970s to today's need-to-know issues such as globalization and the WTO. Using a political economy lens to bring together a multiplicity of voices, Conca and Dabelko have assembled a spectacular volume." "This is an excellent collection of readings that together address the breadth of the environmental dilemma facing humankind. In particular, it exhibits how our understanding of global ecological problems has matured over the twenty years between the two great international conferences on the environment. It is highly recommended to anyone who wishes a fuller comprehension of the interconnected obstacles we must face if we are to develop a sustainable way of living on planet Earth." "The strength of this wide-ranging collection lies in its portrayal of the major sets of ideas or paradigms that have shaped the debate over environmental issues during the last twenty-five years. The result is an excellent introduction to contemporary thinking not only about the causes and consequences of environmental problems but also about the pros and cons of proposed solutions." "Green Planet Blues includes some of the best writing and thinking of the past two decades on the politics of ecology. And lest anyone has forgotten, environmental problems are at least as much about politics as they are about ecology. This is indispensable reading for anyone wishing to get below the surface of issues to their political roots." "This book is outstanding, offering a long-awaited anthology of key readings in the new interdisciplinary field of global politics. The editors have done a superb job of assembling, in a coherent and balanced manner, the best collection to date of theoretical and empirical essays. Their self-conscious inclusion of perspectives from developing countries makes this one of the first collections with a truly global perspective. This book will be profoundly helpful to students of the social sciences and environmental studies-indeed, to anyone who is concerned about the prospects for human life on this green planet." "Green Planet Blues, 3E provides an excellent synthesis of key issues in international environmental law and policy in the last three decades. It provides the most incisive social, political economic analysis of international, national, and local environment concerns. It is an essential reading for academics, policymakers, students and researchers in developing and developed countries." "A grasp of the complexity and dynamics of environmental politics is central to the better environmental future all deserve and need… this is a concise and perspicacious sourcebook on ecopolitics taken from the grand sweep of history from Stokholm to the present day… should be within instant reach of every concerned citizen." Selling TerritoryWorld |
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