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020 _a9780511779428 (ebook)
020 _z9780521765763 (hardback)
020 _z9780521759137 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aGE180
_b.O58 2010
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100 1 _aO'Lear, Shannon,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEnvironmental politics :
_bscale and power /
_cShannon O'Lear.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2010.
300 _a1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Climate change; 3. Oil and energy; 4. Food security; 5. Garbage and waste; 6. Toxins; 7. Resource conflict; 8. Conclusion; References; Index.
520 _aShannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power have contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the formation of dominant narratives about them. The book encourages the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape (and limit) how we think about environmental issues and to expand the reader's understanding of why it matters that these issues are discussed at particular spatial scales. Applying a geographer's sense of scale and power leads to a better understanding of the complexity of environmental issues and will help formulate mitigation and adaptation strategies. The book will appeal mainly to advanced students and researchers from a geography background, but also to social and political scientists who wish to look at the topic from this different perspective.
650 0 _aEnvironmental policy
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEnvironmentalism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEnvironmental protection
_zUnited States.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521765763
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779428
999 _c520700
_d520698