Defensive environmentalists and the dynamics of global reform / Thomas Rudel, Rutgers University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudel, Thomas K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--International cooperation.

Environmental policy.

Environmental protection--International cooperation.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Defensive Environmentalists & the Dynamics of Global Reform

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As global environmental changes become increasingly evident and efforts to respond to these changes fall short of expectations, questions about the circumstances that generate environmental reforms become more pressing. Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform answers these questions through a historical analysis of two processes that have contributed to environmental reforms, one in which people become defensive environmentalists concerned about environmental problems close to home and another in which people become altruistic environmentalists intent on alleviating global problems after experiencing catastrophic events such as hurricanes, droughts and fires. These focusing events make reform more urgent and convince people to become altruistic environmentalists. Bolstered by defensive environmentalists, the altruists gain strength in environmental politics and reforms occur.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Meta-narratives of environmental reform; 3. Globalization, tight coupling, and cascading events; 4. Partitioning resources, preserving resources; 5. Advantaging offspring, limiting offspring; 6. Choosing foods, saving soils; 7. Removing rubbish, recovering resources, and creating inequalities; 8. Saving money, conserving energy; 9. Focusing events, altruistic environmentalism, and the environmental movement; 10. A sustainable development state; 11. Conclusion: defensive environmentalists, sustainable development states, and global reform; References.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-61105-4

1-107-23754-8

1-139-60926-2

1-139-62593-4

1-139-61291-3

1-299-40000-0

1-139-62221-8

1-139-61663-3

1-139-34380-7

OCLC:

829461946