Environmental politics: scale and power / by Shannon O'Lear

By:

O'Lear, Shannon

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Delhi:Description: ix,228pISBN:

9780521759137

Subject(s):

Environmental policy-United States 2. Environmentalism-U

DDC classification:

363.0561 OLE-E

Contents:

1. Introduction-- 2. Climate change-- 3. Oil and energy-- 4. Food security-- 5. Garbage and waste-- 6. Toxins-- 7. Resource conflict-- 8. Conclusion; References; Index.

Summary: Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power have contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the formation of dominant narratives about them. The book encourages the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape (and limit) how we think about environmental issues and to expand the reader's understanding of why it matters that these issues are discussed at particular spatial scales. Applying a geographer's sense of scale and power leads to a better understanding of the complexity of environmental issues and will help formulate mitigation and adaptation strategies. The book will appeal mainly to advanced students and researchers from a geography background, but also to social and political scientists who wish to look at the topic from this different perspective

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB F-2	Non Fiction	363.0561 OLE-E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006809

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1. Introduction--
2. Climate change--
3. Oil and energy--
4. Food security--
5. Garbage and waste--
6. Toxins--
7. Resource conflict--
8. Conclusion; References; Index.

Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power have contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the formation of dominant narratives about them. The book encourages the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape (and limit) how we think about environmental issues and to expand the reader's understanding of why it matters that these issues are discussed at particular spatial scales. Applying a geographer's sense of scale and power leads to a better understanding of the complexity of environmental issues and will help formulate mitigation and adaptation strategies. The book will appeal mainly to advanced students and researchers from a geography background, but also to social and political scientists who wish to look at the topic from this different perspective

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