Encountering global environmental politics : teaching, learning, and empowering knowledge / edited by Michael Maniates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maniates, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental responsibility--Study and teaching (Higher).

Global environmental change--Study and teaching (Higher).

Global environmental change.

Environmental policy--Study and teaching (Higher).

Environmental protection--International cooperation.

Environmental policy.

Environmental responsibility.

Physical Description:

xii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

This collection draws students into conversation about global environmental threats, the tenuous links between knowledge and power, and ways of acting powerfully in service of 'sustainability.'

Contents:

1. Of Knowledge and Power / Michael Maniates 1

Part I. The Classroom: Four Walls, Many Possibilities

2. Ecological Thinking: Studying Global Environmental Politics with a Wild Mind and a Mindful Heart / Paul Wapner 17

3. Teaching as an Ethical Enterprise / William Ayers 35

Part II. Knowledge That Empowers: Relearning the Basics of Global Ecopolitics

4. Global Environmental Politics: Impediments, Frames, and Tools / Lamont Hempel 47

5. Imagining the State / Ken Conca 71

6. Nonstandard Lessons from the "Tragedy of the Commons" / Peter Taylor 87

7. The Last Pocket of Resistance: Environment and Security in the Classroom / Geoffrey Dabelko, Richard Matthew 107

8. Civic Virtue and Classroom Toil in a Greenhouse World / Michael Maniates 129

Part III. Education Expanded: Paths Are Made by Walking

9. Teaching with Theory Plays: The Example of the Ozone Layer in Renewing a Common World / B. Welling Hall 151

10. Water Trade: What Should the World Trade Organization Do? / Thomas Princen, Karl Steyaert 163

11. The Study of Global Environmental Politics in the Information Age / Matthew Auer 181

12. Confronting the Multidisciplinary Classroom / Howard Warshawsky 197

13. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: A Service-Learning Approach to Teaching and Learning Global Environmental Politics / Nancy Quirk 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.

ISBN:

0847695417

0847695425

OCLC:

50124258