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The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disasters (Hardcover)
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The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disasters (Hardcover)
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This book explores the main concerns for grappling with increasing
environmental disasters and examines how environmental disasters
are understood by states, corporations, and non-government
organizations nationally and internationally. The focus of this
book is threefold: first, to investigate what constitutes an
environmental disaster and to identify the parameters for political
responses nationally and internationally. Second, the chapters
analyse contemporary state practices that exacerbate the impact of,
and responses to, environmental disasters. They show how states
promote extractivism based on limited understandings of nature
drawn from Western philosophy. Finally, the book highlights the
strengths and weaknesses in political and institutional responses
at the local level to such disasters by state and non-state actors.
This shows how both slow and fast violence of environmental
disasters affects communities, but also how vulnerable subjects are
based on people's capabilities. The Politics of 21st Century
Environmental Disaster is an indispensable resource for students
and scholars in political science and environmental studies. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Environmental Politics.
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