The Political Economy of Nature Environmental Debates and the Social Sciences

by Boardman, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780333800157
• ISBN10: 033380015X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Political Economy of Nature draws extensively on current insights from sociology, ecology, economics, and earth science. Robert Boardman pools these diverse resources to argue that the investigation of environmental issues raises complex theoretical questions, which can only be answered through more sustained links between the natural and social sciences. With global issues becoming an increasingly vital part of environmental debate, Boradman shows how understanding of ecological problems can be increased in both International Relations and International Political Economy.

Author Biography

Robert Boardman is McCulloch Professor of Political Science, Dalhousie University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
PART I ECHOES	1	(32)
Infused Opinions	3	(10)
Theory, politics and voice	3	(8)
A tale of two oikoi	11	(2)
Scapes, Scops and Sciences	13	(20)
The environmental domain	13	(3)
The cat-herder's lament	16	(10)
IR constructs	26	(7)
PART II DIFFERENCES	33	(108)
Biosphere Grammar	35	(19)
Ecology and earth systems	35	(6)
Towards social ecology	41	(4)
Global processes	45	(7)
Geosciences and global ecology	52	(2)
Ecological Representations	54	(22)
Narrative vs./as reality	54	(5)
Ancient traces	59	(3)
`Embiggening' environments	62	(12)
Constructions and global ecology	74	(2)
Duty Rosters	76	(22)
Applied ethics	77	(4)
Nature's claims	81	(4)
Redefining human needs	85	(11)
Ethics and global ecology	96	(2)
Minute Circumstances	98	(21)
Individuals, acts, outcomes	98	(5)
Choice environments	103	(9)
The quest for agency	112	(6)
Individualism and global ecology	118	(1)
Brief Authority	119	(22)
Conundrums of governance	119	(3)
Claims and models	122	(11)
Functionalist arrangements	133	(5)
Governance and global ecology	138	(3)
PART III WEFTS	141	(41)
From City-State to City-Planet	143	(32)
Globalization: guises and gazes	144	(5)
Globalization and ecological order	149	(3)
Transformations	152	(4)
Indeterminacies	156	(8)
Glocalities	164	(9)
Critical ecological theory	173	(2)
Silent String	175	(7)
References	182	(17)
Index	199