{"product_id":"the-globalization-and-environment-reader-isbn-9781118964132","title":"The Globalization and Environment Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a comprehensive collection of nearly 30 classic and cutting-edge readings spanning a broad range of perspectives within this increasingly important field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses the question of whether economic globalization is the prime cause of the destruction of the global environment – or if some forms of globalization could help to address global environmental problems\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures carefully edited extracts selected both for their importance and their accessibility\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a variety of topics such as the ‘marketization’ of nature, debates about managing and governing the relationship between globalization and the environment, and discussions about whether or not globalization should be ‘greened’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSystematically captures the breadth and diversity of the field without assuming prior knowledge\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a timely and necessary insight into the future of our fragile planet in the 21st century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Introduction: The Globalization and Environment Debate 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. Timmons Roberts and Peter Newell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Going Global 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? (2007) 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWill Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Address at the Closing Ceremony of the Eighth and Final Meeting of the World Commission on Environment and Development and the Tokyo Declaration (1987) 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGro Harlem Brundtland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Foxes in Charge of the Chickens (1993) 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas Hildyard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Can the Environment Survive the Global Economy? (1997) 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward Goldsmith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy (2002) 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur P. J. Mol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Environment and Globalization: Five Propositions (2010) 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdil Najam, David Runnalls, and Mark Halle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Nature of Globalization – Cases and Trends in Globalization 109\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital (1997) 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Costanza, Ralph d’Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O’Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Marjan Van den Belt, and Paul Sutton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Sustainability and Markets: On the Neoclassical Model of Environmental Economics (1997) 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Jacobs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Crafting the Next Generation of Market-Based Environmental Tools (1997) 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeremy B. Hockenstein, Robert N. Stavins, and Bradley W. Whitehead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism: The New Trade in Greenhouse Gases (2004) 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeidi Bachram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Business of Sustainable Development (1992) 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Schmidheney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The “Commons” versus the “Commodity”: Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (2007) 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Bakker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Explaining the Relationship between Globalization and the Environment 211\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change (2011) 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Introduction to World Development Report, 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Global Economy (2003) 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Bank\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Political Ecology of Globalization (2012) 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Newell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Institutions for the Earth: Promoting International Environmental Protection (1992) 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas, and Robert O. Keohane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Governing Globalization and the Environment 279\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Trading Up and Governing Across: Transnational Governance and Environmental Protection (1997) 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Vogel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The WTO and the Undermining of Global Environmental Governance (2000) 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKen Conca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links (2003) 299\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Falkner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Managing Multinationals: The Governance of Investment for the Environment (2001) 309\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Newell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Reforming Global Environmental Governance: The Case for a United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO) (2012) 323\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrank Biermann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Can Globalization be Greened? 333\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Whose Common Future: Reclaiming the Commons (1994) 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ecologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Resisting ‘Globalisation-from-above’ Through ‘Globalisation-from-below’ (1997) 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Falk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the World Trade Organization Pose the Real Threat to National Environmental and Public Health Protection (2005) 371\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlasdair R. Young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (2010) 379\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Pathways of Human Development and Carbon Emissions Embodied in Trade (2012) 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia K. Steinberger, J. Timmons Roberts, Glen P. Peters, and Giovanni Baiocchi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Introduction to Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (2012) 406\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Critique of the Green Economy: Toward Social and Environmental Equity (2012) 422\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara Unmüßig, Wolfgang Sachs, and Thomas Fatheuer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 439\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Newell\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and former Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy. He is associate editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eGlobal Environmental Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, and sits on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Environmental Change \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Environment and Development\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author and co-author of eight books (including \u003ci\u003eGlobalization and the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e), more than 40 journal articles, and 40 book chapters on topics relating to globalization and the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Timmons Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, where he was Director of the Center for Environmental Studies. A Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Roberts has written 11 books and over 70 articles on climate change and global environmental politics. He was recently appointed to the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academy of Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArguably, there is no better iconic representation of globalization than a hulking container ship ferrying electronics, cheap toys, clothing, and furniture to the far corners of the globe—an image which gives rise to a pair of fundamental questions about today’s world: Is economic globalization the prime cause of the destruction of the global environment? And conversely, are new forms of globalization potentially the only ways to address what are now global environmental problems?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globalization and Environment Reader\u003c\/i\u003e features a comprehensive collection of nearly 30 classic and cutting-edge readings that represent a broad range of perspectives within this increasingly important field. Initial readings reveal how the benefits of a massive increase in economic development over the past 60 years are tempered by immense environmental degradation. Further readings explore a variety of themes and issues relating to the nature of globalization (i.e.; how nature is being treated in an increasingly \"marketized\" fashion), debates about managing and governing the relationship between globalization and the environment, and broader discussions about the possibilities for globalization to be \"greened.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimely and essential, \u003ci\u003eThe Globalization and Environment Reader\u003c\/i\u003e offers important insights into the future of our fragile planet in the globalized world of the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Globalization won’t just ‘go away’ but it just can’t ‘go on’, either. To become literate enough to confront the environmental contradictions that follow from this disturbing reality means understanding all sides of a thorny discussion. Newell and Roberts provide an incredible resource to do just that.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Robbins, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDirector, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The perfect primer to get the reader up to speed and then speeding ahead. An essential guide for scholars and policy-makers looking to confront the challenge of making our increasingly global world a green one.\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin P. Gallagher, Boston University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This collection, expertly put together by the editors, provides an unrivalled introduction to the debate on how economic globalization is implicated in the global environmental crisis, and what we can do about it. It contains classic texts and recent publications that shed a critical light on this vitally important topic.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This valuable and well-chosen selection of the most important texts covers the rich variety of viewpoints, insights, debates, arguments, and outlooks on how globalization affects and\/or enhances environmental quality.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur P.J. Mol, Wageningen University, The Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Globalization and Environment Reader\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wealth of perspectives on the limits and possibilities of securing an increasingly uncertain future. This book showcases a strong line-up of scholars bringing global and green lenses to some of the most critical questions of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip McMichael, Cornell University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990241493221,"sku":"NP9781118964132","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118964132.jpg?v=1761787030","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-globalization-and-environment-reader-isbn-9781118964132","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}