Understanding Global Environmental Politics Domination, Accumulation, Resistance

About this book

Aiming to develop a critical approach to global environmental politics, this work does not advocate the construction of new international institutions, but argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures is necessary. After an examination of policy-making surrounding sea defences, which challenges the notion that political institutions are neutral regarding environmental change, it examines the political dynamics of car culture, and of the meat centred fast food industry.

Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Understanding Global Environmental Politics - Realism, Liberalism and the Origins of Global Environmental Change - The 'Normal and Mundane Practices of Modernity': Global Power Structures and the Environment - Space, Domination, Development: Sea Defences and the Structuring of Environmental Decision Making - Car Trouble - Fast Food, Consumer Cultures and Ecology - Conclusion: Globalization, Governance and Resistance - Bibliography - Index

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Biography

MATTHEW PATERSON is Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. He has published widely on the politics of climate change, notably Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), and on the global politics of environmental change more generally.