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The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics »

Authors: Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Editor), Ken Conca
ISBN-13: 9780231081061, ISBN-10: 0231081065
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: September 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Book Synopsis

The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics examines how the difficult issues of social, political, and economic relations will complicate the efforts initiated at the June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The contributors argue that national governments must begin to acknowledge the role of new actors in their environmental policies.

Environmental Politics

Probably the best book yet written on global environmental politics.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	About the Contributors
1	A Tale of Two Forests	1
2	Market-State Relations and Environmental Policy: Limits of State Capacity in Senegal	24
3	Coercing Conservation: The Politics of State Resource Control	46
4	Environmental Challenges in a Turbulent World	71
5	Eco-regimes: Playing Tug of War with the Nation-State	94
6	Knowledge as Power: Ecology Movements and Global Environmental Problems	124
7	The Environmental Attractor in the Former USSR: Ecology and Regional Change	158
8	Negotiating Ecological Interdependence Through Societal Debate: the 1988 Minnesota Drought	185
9	Contested Ground: International Environmentalism and Global Climate Change	221
10	Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Rights, Rules, and the Renegotiation of Resource Management Regimes	246
11	Global Environmental Rescue and the Emergence of World Domestic Politics	280
12	Environmental Change and the Deep Structure of World Politics	306
13	The Implications of Global Ecological Interdependence	327
	Index	345