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Today's students want to understand not only the causes and
character of global environmental problems like climate change,
species extinction, and freshwater scarcity, but also what to do
about them. This book offers the most comprehensive, fair-minded,
accessible, and forward-looking text for introducing students to
the challenge of global environmental protection. Drawing on a
diverse range of voices, the book sequentially explains our current
predicament, examines what is being done to respond at a variety of
levels from the international to the local, and outlines different,
relevant strategic choices for genuine political engagement.
Developed by two top researchers and master teachers of global
environmental politics, the book brings together sharply written
introductory essays with tightly edited selections from a broad
cross section of thinkers to provide a text that will excite and
educate students of global environmental affairs. In addition, the
book introduces a series of exercises designed specifically to help
students draw connections between their own lives and the broader
challenge of global sustainability. Global Environmental Politics:
From Person to Planet finally answers the question of how to teach
students about environmental harm with a sober sense of ecological
reality, a firm grasp on politics, and an optimistic look toward
the future. Features of This Innovative Text Reader: Original
section introductions by the volume editors cover key topics such
as the four major planetary challenges (climate, extinction, water,
and food); leading causes of environmental harm; the role of
states, markets, and civil society; race, class, and geopolitical
difference; and the value of thinking strategically and using a
broad political imagination. Carefully selected and judiciously
edited readings from a wide range of sources feature high-profile
authors from popular as well as specialist media. Action-oriented
exercises engage students in being part of the solution.
Today's students want to understand not only the causes and
character of global environmental problems like climate change,
species extinction, and freshwater scarcity, but also what to do
about them. This book offers the most comprehensive, fair-minded,
accessible, and forward-looking text for introducing students to
the challenge of global environmental protection. Drawing on a
diverse range of voices, the book sequentially explains our current
predicament, examines what is being done to respond at a variety of
levels from the international to the local, and outlines different,
relevant strategic choices for genuine political engagement.
Developed by two top researchers and master teachers of global
environmental politics, the book brings together sharply written
introductory essays with tightly edited selections from a broad
cross section of thinkers to provide a text that will excite and
educate students of global environmental affairs. In addition, the
book introduces a series of exercises designed specifically to help
students draw connections between their own lives and the broader
challenge of global sustainability. Global Environmental Politics:
From Person to Planet finally answers the question of how to teach
students about environmental harm with a sober sense of ecological
reality, a firm grasp on politics, and an optimistic look toward
the future. Features of This Innovative Text Reader: Original
section introductions by the volume editors cover key topics such
as the four major planetary challenges (climate, extinction, water,
and food); leading causes of environmental harm; the role of
states, markets, and civil society; race, class, and geopolitical
difference; and the value of thinking strategically and using a
broad political imagination. Carefully selected and judiciously
edited readings from a wide range of sources feature high-profile
authors from popular as well as specialist media. Action-oriented
exercises engage students in being part of the solution.
He is the world's most famous magician: but before his name became
legend, who was young Harry Houdini? London, 1886. Lady Flora Cusp,
devoted to funding libraries for the poor, has been shot in her
room. Who could possibly have wanted to harm her? It is up to
Harry, Billie, and Artie to find out who did it, and to stop the
gunman from striking again. But as they delve deeper the case takes
a deadly turn. Harry may be an incredible escape artist, but with
the assassin now on his tail, how will he get out alive?
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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