Shannon 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 envi...

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Main Author:	O'Lear, Shannon (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010
Subjects:	Umweltpolitik Umweltschutz Environmental policy / United States Environmentalism / United States Environmental protection / United States Geografischer Raum USA
Online Access:	BSB01 FHN01 Volltext
Summary:	Shannon 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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (ix, 228 pages)
ISBN:	9780511779428
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511779428