Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics

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Revised and updated throughout, this unique anthology examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives and captures the voices of both the powerless and the powerful. Paradigms of sustainability, environmental security, and ecological justice illustrate the many ways environmental challenges and their solutions are framed in contemporary international debates about climate, water, forests, toxics, energy, food, and biodiversity. Organized thematically, the selections offer a truly global scope. Seventeen new readings explore climate justice, globalization, land and water grabs, climate change and conflict, China’s international environmental relations, and the future of climate politics in the wake of the Paris Agreement. This book stresses the underlying questions of power, interests, authority, and legitimacy that shape environmental debates, and it provides readers with a global range of perspectives on the critical challenges facing the planet and its people. This new edition of Green Planet Blues connects directly with a wide-range of upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level courses. Contents Preface Introduction: From Stockholm To Sustainability? 1. The Limits to Growth 2. Environment and Development 3. The Tragedy of the Commons 4. Redefining National Security 5. Two Agendas on Amazon Development 6. Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons 7. Rethinking the Ecology–Sovereignty Debate 8. China’s Environmental Challenges 9. Nobel Lecture 10. Transnational Environmental Activism in North America 11. Green Pluralism 12. A Wish List for an Environmentally Friendly NAFTA 13. The Climate Change Battle in Paris 14. Climate Change after Paris 15. This Changes Nothing 16. From The Millennium Development Goals To The Sustainable Development Goals: Shifts In Purpose, Concept, And Politics Of Global G 17. The Problem of Consumption 18. The End of Sustainability 19. Sustainability vs. Resilience 20. Sustainability Is Not Enough 21. An Uncommon Peace 22. From Conflict to Peacebuilding 23. The Role of Drought and Climate Change in the Syrian U 24. Environmental Peacebuilding 25. Deadly Environment 26. Climate Wrongs and Human Rights 27. The Global Water Grab: A 28. The Real Price of Europe Going Green 29. Coal, Identity, And The Gendering Of Environmental Justice Activism In Central Appalachia 30. Inequality and Environmental Policy Index