| Protecting the Global Environment Contributor(s): Bryner, Gary C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 159451674X ISBN-13: 9781594516740 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development - Business & Economics | Environmental Economics |
| Dewey: 363.705 |
| LCCN: 2010035325 |
| Series: International Studies Intensives |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.83 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " Gary Bryner's brief, readable, capstone book: " Features a forward by Mark A. Boyer Outlines the major environmental challenges facing the world today Applies international relations theory to these challenges Covers such key topics as development, sustainability, and market capitalism Offers a social justice perspective to environmental problems and solutions Borne of an amalgam of social science, fieldwork, and a passionate commitment to justice, this book brings debates about climate change to a new level, compelling readers and researchers to rethink the reasons for reversing global environmental trends. The book lays out three inspirations for improving environmental prospects: effective markets, sustainable development, and environmental justice for the most vulnerable. It also projects three possible scenarios flowing from the success or failure of these inspirations one bleak, one breakthrough, and one of status quo. Gary Bryner is not sanguine about humanity s ability to make the right choices, but this does not deter him from asking us to think beyond our own generation and our own species in urging environmental action now." |
