Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and Practice

by Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Book Overview

Traditional views of global environmental politics take the structures and relations of international politics as a given. Solutions to environmental problems, then, must be products of concession, negotiation, and inevitable compromise--a world of top-down planetary management. Lipschutz challenges students to question these conventional approaches. He argues that much light can be shed on global environmental degradation if we look beyond the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568027494
• ISBN13: 9781568027494
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: CQ Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher