Environmental Activism And World Civic Politics
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Author |
: Paul Kevin Wapner |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791427897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791427897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics by : Paul Kevin Wapner
Based on case studies of three transnational groups, it argues that in addition to lobbying governments, activists operate within and across societies to effect widespread change. They work through transnational social, economic, and cultural networks to alter corporate practices, educate vast numbers of people, pressure multilateral development banks, and shift standards of good conduct. Wapner argues that because this activity takes place outside the formal arena of inter-state politics, environmental activists practice "world civic politics"; they politicize global civil society.
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: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:154280477 |
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: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environment Activism and World Civic Politics by :
Author |
: Christof Mauch |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742546489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742546486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shades of Green by : Christof Mauch
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.
Author |
: Ronnie D. Lipschutz |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 1996-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1438411057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781438411057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance by : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
What will it take to protect the global environment? In this book, Ronnie D. Lipschutz argues that neither world government nor green economics can do the job. Governmental regulations often are resisted by those whose behavior they are intended to change, and markets—even green ones—look to profits more than to protection. What will be needed, Lipschutz believes, is not global management but political action through community- and place-based organizations and projects. People acting together locally can have a cumulative impact on environmental quality that is significant, long lasting, and widespread. The comparative case studies of environmental activism in Northern California, Hungary, and Indonesia (the latter written by Judith Mayer) illustrate one of the central premises of this book: that local action is linked increasingly to globe-spanning networks of knowledge and practice, in what Lipschutz calls global civil society. The result is a system of governance that is both local and global, to which states and international organizations are turning increasingly for help and advice.
Author |
: Christopher Rootes |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2014-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317994831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317994833 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental Movements by : Christopher Rootes
Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at national levels. This volume is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and southern Europe, the US and the global arena.
Author |
: Brian Doherty |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2013-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317968603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317968603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Borders by : Brian Doherty
Globalisation is about transnational politics. While nation-state governments increasingly struggle with this new politics, which moves beneath, between and beyond national borders, others entities like transnational corporations have flourished. But it is not just business which increasingly bypasses these traditional boundaries. Environmental groups are also moving though this transnational space, and their politics are defined by such qualities as fluidity, ambiguity and rapid changes in identity, mission and structure. In this book, the politics of environmental movements are presented as particularly salient examples of these new phenomena. Drawing on fieldwork from Europe, Asia, America, Africa and the Middle East, the contributors address a range of trans-national processes: efforts to construct common agendas transnationally; the diffusion of new repertoires of environmental protest; the role of environmental groups in the construction of new modes of environmental governance; how neo-liberalism affects local environmental activism; evidence of transnational influences and pressures on environmental politics in repressive regimes; and the dilemmas of defining questions of environmental justice and post-colonial environmental politics without suppressing the differences between environmentalism in different countries.
Author |
: B. Doherty |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2013-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137316714 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137316713 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity by : B. Doherty
Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a distinctive environmentalism, which allows for the differences in context between regions and across the North-South divide.
Author |
: Char Miller |
Publisher |
: University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2019-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781607328483 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1607328488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nature of Hope by : Char Miller
The Nature of Hope focuses on the dynamics of environmental activism at the local level, examining the environmental and political cultures that emerge in the context of conflict. The book considers how ordinary people have coalesced to demand environmental justice and highlights the powerful role of intersectionality in shaping the on-the-ground dynamics of popular protest and social change. Through lively and accessible storytelling, The Nature of Hope reveals unsung and unstinting efforts to protect the physical environment and human health in the face of continuing economic growth and development and the failure of state and federal governments to deal adequately with the resulting degradation of air, water, and soils. In an age of environmental crisis, apathy, and deep-seated cynicism, these efforts suggest the dynamic power of a “politics of hope” to offer compelling models of resistance, regeneration, and resilience. The contributors frame their chapters around the drive for greater democracy and improved human and ecological health and demonstrate that local activism is essential to the preservation of democracy and the protection of the environment. The book also brings to light new styles of leadership and new structures for activist organizations, complicating assumptions about the environmental movement in the United States that have focused on particular leaders, agencies, thematic orientations, and human perceptions of nature. The critical implications that emerge from these stories about ecological activism are crucial to understanding the essential role that protecting the environment plays in sustaining the health of civil society. The Nature of Hope will be crucial reading for scholars interested in environmentalism and the mechanics of social movements and will engage historians, geographers, political scientists, grassroots activists, humanists, and social scientists alike.
Author |
: Ronnie D. Lipschutz |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2018-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1538105101 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781538105108 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental Politics for a Changing World by : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Environmental problems are, first and foremost, political and, therefore, about power. Using a framework of political economy and political ecology, the authors deconstruct current environmental problems to identify root causes and the possibilities to address problems through mobilization of collective action and social power.
Author |
: Neil Carter |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 459 |
Release |
: 2018-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108472302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108472303 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of the Environment by : Neil Carter
Revised to include new discussions on climate justice, green political parties, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles.