This thought-provoking and clearly argued text provides a critical
geopolitical lens for understanding global environment politics. A
subfield of political geography, environmental geopolitics examines
how environmental themes are used to support geopolitical arguments
and physical realities of power and place. Shannon O'Lear considers
common, problematic traits of such familiar but widely
misunderstood narratives about human-environment relationships.
Mainstream themes about human-environment relationships include
narratives about presumed connections between human population
trends and resource scarcity; ways in which conflict and violence
are linked to resource use or environmental degradation; climate
security; and the application of science to solve environmental
problems. O'Lear questions these narratives, arguing that the role
or meaning of the environment is rarely specified, humans' role in
these situations tends to be considered selectively, and little
attention is paid to spatial dimensions of human-environment
relationships. She shows that how we tend to think about
environmental concerns often obscure value judgments and constrain
more dynamic approaches to human-environment relationships.
Environmental geopolitics demonstrates how we can question familiar
assumptions to generate more just and creative approaches to our
many relationships with the environment.
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