Dear Colleagues, 
Looking for a reader in Global Environmental Politics? Simon Nicholson and I just learned that our new edited book, Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet, is now available.  The book includes some of the most important treatments of global environmental affairs and politics, and provides a sequential course of study if used as a primary text.  We've written introductions to each section and have included interactive student exercises. If you're looking for a text for the fall or spring, Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet may be perfect. Please see the Table of Contents below.

 

 

Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction: Living in an Environmental Age

PART I: STATE OF THE PLANET

Section 1: Species Unbound: Humanity’s Environmental Impact

Introduction

1.       Enter the Anthropocene, Elizabeth Kolbert

2.       State of the Species, Charles C. Mann

3.       Humanity’s Potential, Alex Steffen

Section 1 Exercise: “The Time Machine”


Section 2: Four Planetary Challenges: Climate, Extinction, Water, and Food

Introduction

4.       Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, Bill McKibben

5.       End of the Wild, Stephen M. Meyer

6.       Where Has All the Water Gone? Maude Barlow

7.       The Global Food Crisis, Lester Brown

Section 2 Exercise: “Fries with That? Tracing Personal Consumption”


Section 3: Causes of Environmental Harm

Introduction

8.       Too Many Americans? Thomas Friedman

9.       A Finite Earth? Bill McKibben

10.  Consequences of Consumerism, Erik Assadourian

11.  Use Energy, Get Rich, and Save the Planet, John Tierney

Section 3 Exercise: “Where do Babies Come From? The Causes of Population Growth”

 

PART II: STATES, MARKETS, AND SOCIETY: GEOPOLITICAL RESPONSES TO UNSUSTAINABILITY 

Section 4: International State System

Introduction

12.  Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

13.  Brief History of International Environmental Cooperation, Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne

14.  What’s Wrong with Climate Politics? Paul Harris

15.  State Sovereignty Endangers the Planet, Richard Falk

Section 4 Exercise: “Talking with the United Nations”


Section 5: Economy

Introduction

16.  The Promise of Corporate Environmentalism, Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister

17.  Environmental Economics 101: Overcoming Market Failures, Paul Krugman

18.  Capitalism vs. Climate, Naomi Klein

Section 5 Exercise: “What’s for Dinner?”

 

Section 6: Civil Society

Introduction

19.  The Power of Environmental Activism, Paul Hawken

20.  Forcing Cultural Change, Paul Wapner

21.  The Wrong Kind of Green, Johann Hari

Section 6 Exercise: “Unpacking the NGO World and Taking Action”


Section 7: Race, Class, and Geopolitical Difference

Introduction

22.  The Delusion of Sustainable Growth, Herman E. Daly

23.  Who is an Economy For? Rethinking GDP, Jonathan Rowe

24.  One Atmosphere, Two Worlds, Peter Singer

25.  Environmental Colonialism: The Perverse Politics of Climate Change, Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain

26.  Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement, Robert Bullard

Section 7 Exercise: “A Toxic Thank You”

 

PART III: FROM PERSON TO PLANET: INTO A LIVABLE FUTURE

Section 8: Thinking Strategically

Introduction

27.  Leverage Points Toward a Sustainable World, Donella H. Meadows

28.  Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? Michael F. Maniates

29.  The Poverty of Lifestyle Change, Paul Wapner and John Willoughby

30.  Why Bother? Michael Pollan

Section 8 Exercise: “Two Minutes to Sustainability: Moving Governments, the Economy, and Public”

 

Section 9: Political Imagination

Introduction

31.  Island Civilization: 1,000 Years into the Future, Roderick Frazier Nash

32.  A is for Acid Rain, B is for Bee, Joanne Harris

33.  The Future is Local, Wendell Berry

34.  Technological Salvation, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus

35.  Geoengineering: Reformatting the Planet for Climate Protection? Simon Nicholson

36.  Humility in a Climate Age, Paul Wapner

37.  How to be Hopeful, Barbara Kingsolver

Section 9 Exercise: “Calling All Earthlings: Self and Planetary Stewardship”




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