Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Tyoto

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Introduction Twenty-Five Years of Global Environmental Politics 1
• Part One - The Debate, at Stockholm 17
• 1 - The Limits to Growth 27
• 2 - Environment & Development: The Case of the Developing Countries 32
• 3 - The Tragedy of the Commons 40
• 4 - No Tragedy on the Commons 48
• 5 - The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later 55
• 6 - The Scarcity Society 65
• Part Two - Ecology and the Structure of the International System 73
• 7 - Rethinking the Ecology--Sovereignty Debate 85
• 8 - The Shadow Ecologies of Western Economies 94
• 9 - Global Technopolitics 97
• 10 - Fight for the Forest 102
• 11 - Think Locally, Act Globally? the Transnationalization of Canadian Resource-Use Conflicts 107
• 12 - Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics 118
• Part Three - The Prospects for International Environmental Cooperation 131
• Additional Reading 138
• 13 - Ozone Diplomacy 141
• 14 - Do International Environmental Agreements Really Work ? 149
• 15 - Skinning Scientific Cats 153
• 16 - Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism 157
• 17 - The Earth Summit: Reflections on an Ambiguous Event 161
• Part Four - Institutions as Though the Earth Mattered 169
• 18 - The Case for Free Trade 179
• 19 - The Perils of Free Trade 187
• 20 - Trade and Sustainable Development 195
• 21 - The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform 201
• 22 - Greening Development: Environmental Implications of Economic Policies 212
• Part Five - The Sustainable Development Debate 221
• 24 - Whose Common Future? 240
• 25 - Sustainable, Development: A Critical Review 245
• 26 - Voices from the Developing World: Progress Toward Sustainable Development 257
• 27 - The Business of Sustainable Development 268
• 28 - How Much is Enough? 273
• From Ecological Conflict to Environmental Security? 279
• Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases 287
• 30 - New Dimensions of Human Security 298
• 31 - The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security 304
• 32 - For Whose Benefit? Redefining Security 314
• Part Seven - Ecological Justice 317
• 33 - Statement to the U.N. Conference on Environment & Development 325
• 34 - Women, Poverty & Population: Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist 328
• 35 - Two Agendas on Amazon Development 337
• 36 - Coercing Conservation 343
• Notes 353

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