Green Planet Blues

by Conca, Ken

• ISBN13: 9780813344119
• ISBN10: 0813344115
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-12
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

This collection of classic and new essays on global environmental politics explores current environmental controversies from a variety of perspectives and value orientations.

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	p. ix
Introduction: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics	p. 1
The Debate at Stockholm	p. 15
The Limits to Growth	p. 25
Environment and development: The case of the developing Countries	p. 30
The tragedy of the Commons	p. 38
No Tragedy on the Commons	p. 46
Ecology and the Structure of the International System	p. 55
Rethinking the Ecology-Soverignty debate	p. 65
Environment and Globalization: Five Propositions	p. 76
Fight for the Forest	p. 94
Kenya's Green Militant: An Interview with Wangarei Muta Maathai	p. 99
Globalization, Global Alliances, and the Narmada Movement	p. 106
Institutions of Global Environmental Governance	p. 117
Governance with Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Healthy or III-Equipped Fragmentation?	p. 126
Moving Forward by Looking Back: Learning from UNEP's History	p. 143
A Participatory Approach to Strategic Planning	p. 161
The Evolution of the Trade and Environment Debate at the WTO	p. 168
Has Foreign Aid Been Greened?	p. 177
Report and Findings on the Qinghai Project: Executive Summary, World Bank Inspection Panel	p. 193
The Sustain Ability Debate	p. 199
Towards Sustainable Development, World Commission on Environment and Development	p. 207
Whose Common Future?	p. 218
Sustainable Development: A Critical Review	p. 224
Expanding the Capital Stock	p. 237
Shifting the Pain: World's Resources Feed California's Growing Appetite	p. 243
From Ecological Conflict to Environmental Security?	p. 247
Demography, Environment, and Civil Strife	p. 256
Sudan: Conflict and the Environment, United Nations Environment Programme	p. 267
The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security	p. 279
The Violence of Development	p. 290
An Uncommon Peace: Environment, Development, and the Global Security Agenda	p. 292
Ecological Justice	p. 307
Two Agendas on Amazon Development, Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples' Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA)	p. 316
A Voice for the Forest and Its People	p. 323
Coercing Conservation	p. 326
The Relationship Between Climate Change and Human Rights, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights	p. 338
Index	p. 353
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