Newell Globalization and the Environment

Capitalism, Ecology and Power
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6471-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 203 Seiten, E-Book

Globalization and the Environment critically explores theactors, politics and processes that govern the relationship betweenglobalization and the environment. Taking key aspects ofglobalisation in turn - trade, production and finance - the bookhighlights the relations of power at work that determine whetherglobalization is managed in a sustainable way and on whose behalf.
Each chapter looks in turn at the political ecology of thesecentral pillars of the global economy, reviewing evidence of itsimpact on diverse ecologies and societies, its governance - thepolitical structures, institutions and policy making processes inplace to manage this relationship - and finally efforts to contestand challenge these prevailing approaches.
The book makes sense of the relationship between globalisation andthe environment using a range of theoretical tools from differentdisciplines. This helps to place the debate about the compatibilitybetween globalisation and sustainability in an explicitly politicaland historical context in which it is possible to appreciate the'nature' of interests and power relations thatprivilege some ways of responding to environmental problems overothers in a context of globalisation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newell, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi
Acknowledgements viii
Abbreviations x
Tables and Boxes xiii
1 Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power 1
2 The Political Ecology of Globalization 17
3 The Political Economy of Global Environmental Governance: Power(in) Globalization 34
4 Global Trade and the Environment: Whose Rules Rule? 60
5 Global Production and the Environment: Racing to the Top, Bottom or Middle? 88
6 Global Finance and the Environment: Gambling on Green 114
7 Conclusions: Ecologizing Globalization/Globalizing Ecology 145
References 160
Index 186

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Newell is professor of international relations at the University of Sussex and director of the Centre for Global Political Economy.