Winner, American Sociological Association Section on Environment
and Technology Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award The
world currently faces several severe social and environmental
crises, including economic under-development, widespread poverty
and hunger, lack of safe drinking water for one-sixth of the
world's population, deforestation, rapidly increasing levels of
pollution and waste, dramatic declines in soil fertility and
biodiversity, and global warming. Inequality, Democracy, and the
Environment sheds light on the structural causes of these and other
social and environmental crises, highlighting in particular the key
role that elite-controlled organizations, institutions, and
networks play in creating these crises. Liam Downey focuses on four
topics-globalization, agriculture, mining, and U.S. energy and
military policy-to show how organizational and institutional
inequality and elite-controlled organizational networks produce
environmental degradation and social harm. He focuses on key
institutions like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund,
the U.S. Military and the World Trade Organization to show how
specific policies are conceived and enacted in order to further
elite goals. Ultimately, Downey lays out a path for environmental
social scientists and environmentalists to better understand and
help solve the world's myriad social and environmental crises.
Inequality, Democracy and the Environment presents a passionate
expose of the true role inequality, undemocratic institutions and
organizational power play in harming people and the environment.
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