Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance

by Matthew Paterson

This book develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to such challenges, it argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures is necessary. After an examination of policy-making surrounding sea defenses, which challenges the notion that political institutions are neutral regarding environmental change, it examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333968557
• ISBN13: 9780333968550
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"