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9780847695416

Encountering Global Environmental Politics Teaching, Learning, and Empowering Knowledge

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847695416

  • ISBN10:

    0847695417

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-12-24
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $110.00

Summary

This collection draws students into conversation about global environmental threats, the tenuous links between knowledge and power, and ways of acting powerfully in service of sustainability. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Forewordp. vii
Prefacep. xi
Of Knowledge and Powerp. 1
The Classroom: Four Walls, Many Possibilities
Ecological Thinking: Studying Global Environmental Politics with a Wild Mind and a Mindful Heartp. 17
Teaching as an Ethical Enterprisep. 35
Knowledge That Empowers: Relearning the Basics of Global Ecopolitics
Global Environmental Politics: Impediments, Frames, and Toolsp. 47
Imagining the Statep. 71
Nonstandard Lessons from the "Tragedy of the Commons"p. 87
The Last Pocket of Resistance: Environment and Security in the Classroomp. 107
Civic Virtue and Classroom Toil in a Greenhouse Worldp. 129
Education Expanded: Paths Are Made by Walking
Teaching with Theory Plays: The Example of the Ozone Layer in Renewing a Common Worldp. 151
Water Trade: What Should the World Trade Organization Do?p. 163
The Study of Global Environmental Politics in the Information Agep. 181
Confronting the Multidisciplinary Classroomp. 197
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: A Service-Learning Approach to Teaching and Learning Global Environmental Politicsp. 211
Referencesp. 231
Indexp. 247
About the Contributorsp. 259
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