The Globalization and Environment Reader - Softcover

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Peter Newell 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 Global Environmental Politics, and sits on the editorial board of Global Environmental Change and the Journal of Environment and Development. He is the author and co-author of eight books (including Globalization and the Environment), more than 40 journal articles, and 40 book chapters on topics relating to globalization and the environment.

J. Timmons Roberts 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.

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Arguably, 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?

The Globalization and Environment Reader 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."

Timely and essential, The Globalization and Environment Reader offers important insights into the future of our fragile planet in the globalized world of the 21st century.

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Arguably, 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?

The Globalization and Environment Reader 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.

Timely and essential, The Globalization and Environment Reader offers important insights into the future of our fragile planet in the globalized world of the 21st century.