Green Planet Blues

by Conca, Ken; Dabelko, Geoffrey D.

• ISBN13: 9780813342009
• ISBN10: 0813342007
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-18
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

The revised and updated third edition of this cutting-edge collection brings together classic readings and important new material on global environmental politics. In selections chosen for their authority and edited to preserve their integrity,Green Planet Bluesexamines international environmental controversies from a diversity of viewpoints and value orientations, ranging from elite political actors and intergovernmental organizations to social-movement activists and citizens around the world. Paradigms of sustainability, environmental security, and ecological justice are used to explain topics ranging from deforestation, toxic dumping, and watershed degradation to transboundary pollution and the global commons.Green Planet Bluesis an essential part of any course in environmental studies and international relations. This third edition features new material on globalization and the environment, social movement activism, the World Bank, the WTO, 'stakeholder' approaches to international environmental cooperation, and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Each section has been supplemented with critical thinking exercises; and a book-related web site provides links to a wide array of suggested readings and Internet resources.

Author Biography

Ken Conca is associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and director of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda. Geoffrey D. Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change and Security Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Three Decades of Global Environmental Politics,
Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko	1	(14)
PART ONE THE DEBATE AT STOCKHOLM	15	(46)
1 The Limits to Growth,
Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III	24	(5)
2 Environment and Development: The Case of the Developing Countries,
João Augusto de Araujo Castro	29	(8)
3 The Tragedy of the Commons,
Garrett Hardin	37	(8)
4 No Tragedy on the Commons,
Susan J. Buck	45	(9)
5 The Scarcity Society,
William Ophuls	54	(7)
PART TWO ECOLOGY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM	61	(80)
6 Rethinking the Ecology-Sovereignty Debate,
Ken Conca	71	(11)
7 Stuck in the Mud? Nation-States, Globalization, and Environment,
Lyuba Zarsky	82	(12)
8 Fight for the Forest,
Chico Mendes (with Tony Gross)	94	(5)
9 Kenya's Green Militant: An Interview with Wangari Muta Maathai,
Ethirajan Anbarasan	99	(8)
10 Think Locally, Act Globally? The Transnationalization of Canadian Resource-Use Conflicts,
Mary L. Barker and Dietrich Soyez	107	(15)
11 Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics,
Paul Wapner	122	(19)
PART THREE THE PROSPECTS FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION	141	(42)
12 Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Summary,
United Nations Environment Programme	147	(9)
13 Perspective on the Johannesburg Summit,
James Gustav Speth	156	(8)
14 A Participatory Approach to Strategic Planning,
Richard E. Bissell	164	(7)
15 Excerpt from The Jo'Burg Memo: Fairness in a Fragile World,
Henri Acselrad, Farida Akhter, Ada Amon, et al.	171	(8)
16 Skinning Scientific Cats,
Sheila Jasanoff	179	(4)
PART FOUR INSTITUTIONS AS THOUGH THE EARTH MATTERED	183	(44)
17 Presentation to the World Trade Organization Symposium,
Tony Juniper	190	(10)
18 Environment and the Trading System: Picking up the Post-Seattle
Pieces, Daniel C. Esty	200	(10)
19 World Bank's Environmental Reform Agenda, Frances Seymour and
Navroz K. Dubash	210	(6)
20 Expanding the Capital Stock,
Ismail Serageldin and Andrew Steer	216	(6)
21 Report and Findings on the Qinghai Project: Executive Summary,
World Bank Inspection Panel	222	(5)
PART FIVE THE SUSTAINABILITY DEBATE	227	(56)
22 Towards Sustainable Development,
World Commission on Environment and Development	234	(12)
23 Whose Common Future?
Larry Lohmann	246	(6)
24 Sustainable Development: A Critical Review,
Sharachchandra M. Lélé	252	(13)
25 Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development,
Björn Stigson	265	(10)
26 How Much Is Enough?
Alan Durning	275	(8)
PART SIX FROM ECOLOGICAL CONFLICT TO ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY?	283	(48)
27 Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases,
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon	290	(13)
28 The Case against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security,
Daniel Deudney	303	(11)
29 The Human Dimensions of Environmental Insecurity,
Adil Najam	314	(11)
30 For Whose Benefit? Redefining Security,
Somaya Saad	325	(3)
31 The Violence of Development,
Balakrishnan Rajagopal	328	(3)
PART SEVEN ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE	331
32 Two Agendas on Amazon Development,
Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples' Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA)	339	(7)
33 Coercing Conservation,
Nancy Lee Peluso	346	(12)
34 Women, Poverty, and Population: Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist,
Gita Sen	358	(10)
35 Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change,
United Nations Population Fund	368