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Understanding Global Environmental Politics

Domination, Accumulation, Resistance

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Matthew Paterson

    1. Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Understanding Global Environmental Politics

    • Matthew Paterson
    Pages 1-10

  3. Realism, Liberalism and the Origins of Global Environmental Change

    • Matthew Paterson
    Pages 11-34

  4. The ‘normal and mundane practices of modernity’: Global Power Structures and the Environment

    • Matthew Paterson
    Pages 35-65

  5. Space, Domination, Development: Sea Defences and the Structuring of Environmental Decision-Making

    • Matthew Paterson
    Pages 66-94

  6. Car Trouble

    • Matthew Paterson
    Pages 95-117

  7. Fast Food, Consumer Culture and Ecology

    • Matthew Paterson
    Pages 118-140

  8. Conclusion: Globalisation, Governance and Resistance

    • Matthew Paterson
    Pages 141-161

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 162-199
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About this book

Understanding Global Environmental Politics develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. It argues that the major power structures of world politics are deeply problematic in ecological terms, and that they cannot be easily used to resolve major environmental challenges such as global warming. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to such challenges, therefore, the book argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary.

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  • Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Matthew Paterson

About the author

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.

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