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This ground-breaking book presents interdisciplinary instructors
with classroom tools and strategies to integrate environmental
justice into their courses. Providing accessible, flexible, and
evidence-based pedagogical approaches designed by a
multidisciplinary team of scholars, it centers equity and justice
in student learning and course design. It further presents a model
for community-based faculty development that can communicate those
pedagogical approaches across disciplines. Key Features: Reflection
on how to teach inclusively across disciplines, with a focus on
community-based faculty development. Presentation of a blend of
insights from diverse disciplines, including art, astronomy,
ecology, economics, history, political science, and online
education. A focus on how to stimulate student engagement to
improve students’ empirical and conceptual understanding of
environmental politics. Detailed instructions for both introductory
and more advanced active learning assignments and classroom
activities, including guidance on how to manage common challenges
and adapt activities to specific learning environments,
particularly online formats Providing detailed instructions and
reflections on teaching effectively and inclusively, Teaching
Environmental Justice will be an invaluable resource for faculty
and graduate students teaching modules in environmental justice in
courses across disciplines. It will also be essential reading for
researchers of teaching and learning seeking insight into
cutting-edge classroom practices that center equity and justice in
student learning.
This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of
environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis
and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years
of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes.
The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have
driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the
last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to
oversights and silences, and the marginalisation of important forms
of analysis and thought. As several chapters in the book explore,
problem-solving frameworks have increasingly taken away space from
more radical systemic challenge and critique, as the key themes of
environmental politics have become ever more central to the field
of politics as a whole - and as our understandings of social and
environmental crisis become ever clearer and more urgent. The
second purpose of the volume is to map out a series of new and
developing agendas for environmental politics. The chapters in this
volume focus foremost on questions of justice, materiality, and
power. Discussing state violence, multispecies justice, epistemic
injustice, the circular economy, NGOs, parties, green transition,
and urban climate governance, they call above all for greater
attention to intersectionality and interdisciplinarity, and for
centering key insights about power relations and socio-economic
inequalities into increasingly widespread, yet also often
depoliticised, topics in the study of environmental politics. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Environmental Politics.
How the environmental provisions in US preferential trade
agreements affect both the environmental policies of trading
partners and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental
agreements. As trade negotiations within the World Trade
Organization seem permanently stalled, countries turn increasingly
to preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between smaller groups of
nations. Many of these PTAs incorporate environmental provisions,
some of which require trading partners to enact new domestic
environmental laws, and use the enforcement mechanisms available
within trade agreements as tools for environmental protection. In
Greening through Trade, Sikina Jinnah and Jean-Frederic Morin
provide the first detailed examination of how the environmental
provisions in US preferential trade agreements affect both the
environmental policies of trading partners and the effectiveness of
multilateral environmental agreements. They do so through a
combination of in-depth qualitative case studies and quantitative
analysis of an original dataset of 688 global PTAs. Jinnah and
Morin explore the effects of linkages between PTAs and
environmental treaties and the diffusion of environmental norms and
policy through PTAs. Centrally, they argue that US trade agreements
can serve as mechanisms both to export environmental policies to
trading partner nations and third-party countries and to enhance
the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements by
strengthening their enforcement capacity. They caution that PTAs
are not a panacea for environmental governance; deeper problems of
unsustainable consumption and differential power dynamics between
trading partners must be carefully navigated in deploying trade
agreements for environmental protection.
Global Environmental Politics provides a fully up to date and
comprehensive introduction to the most important issues dominating
this fast moving field. Going beyond the issue of climate change,
the textbook also introduces students to the pressing issues of
desertification, trade in hazardous waste, biodiversity protection,
whaling, acid rain, ozone-depletion, water consumption, and
over-fishing. . Importantly, the authors pay particular attention
to the interactions between environmental politics and other
governance issues, such as gender, trade, development, health,
agriculture, and security. Adopting an analytical approach, the
authors explore and evaluate a wide variety of political
perspectives, testing students' assumptions and equipping them with
the necessary tools to develop their own arguments and, ultimately,
inspiring students to pursue their own research endeavours in this
diverse field.
Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global
environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental
stress. Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate
and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly
outstripping our political and social capacities for managing it.
We are in effect creating an Earth 2.0 on which the human signature
is everywhere, a "new earth" in desperate need of humane and
insightful guidance. In this volume, prominent scholars and
practitioners in the field of global environmental politics
consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new
earth, and probe the field's deepest and most enduring questions at
a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in
complementary pairs, the essays in this volume include reflections
on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities,
reflections on the power of social movements and international
institutions, and calls for more compelling narratives to promote
environmental action. At the heart of the volume is sustained
attention to the role of traditional scholarly activities in a
world confronting environmental disaster. Some contributors make
the case that it is the scholar's role to provide activists with
the necessary knowledge and tools; others argue for more direct
engagement and political action. All the contributors confront the
overriding question: What is the best use of their individual and
combined energies, given the dire environmental reality?
Contributors Erik Assadourian, Frank Biermann, Wil Burns, Ken
Conca, Peter Dauvergne, Daniel Deudney, Navroz Dubash, Richard
Falk, Joyeeta Gupta, Maria Ivanova, Peter Jacques, Sikina Jinnah,
Karen T. Litfin, Michael F. Maniates, Elizabeth Mendenhall, Simon
Nicholson, Kate O'Neill, Judith Shapiro, Paul Wapner, Oran R. Young
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