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Hard-cover • 2008
Pages: 352
ISBN: 8171885551
For Sale in South Asia Only

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Paths to a Green World

The Poltical Economy Of The Global Environment

Jennifer Clapp‚ Peter Dauvergne

About the Book

<p>This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual academic emphasis on inter-national agreements and institutions, it strives to integrate debates within the real world of global policy and the academic world of theory.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The book maps out an original typology of four contrasting worldviews of environmental change—those of market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens— and uses these as a framework to examine the links between the global political economy and ecological change. This typology not only helps students understand and participate in debates about these worldviews but also provides a common language for students and instructors to discuss the issues across the social sciences. The book covers globalization and its consequences for the environment; the evolution of global discourse and global environmental governance; wealth, poverty, and consumption; the impact on the environment of global trade and trade agreements; transnational corporations and differential environmental standards; and the environmental effects of international financing, including multilateral lending and aid and bilateral and private finance. Brief, illustrative case studies appear throughout the text.</p>

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

<p><strong>Jennifer Clapp</strong> is Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Studies and Chair of the International Development Studies Program at Trent University, Ontario, Canada.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Peter Dauvergne</strong> is Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics, Director of the Environment Program of the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.</p>
Contents in Detail

List of Illustrations

 

Preface

 

Acknowledgments

 

Acronyms

 

 

 

1 Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of
   Global Environmental Change 


   Four Environmental Worldviews

 

   Market Liberals

 

   Institutionalists

 

   Bioenvironmentalists

 

   Social Greens

 

   Conclusion

 

 


2 The Ecological Consequences of
   Globalization


   What Is Globalization?

 

   Globalization and the Global
   Environment

 

   Conclusion

 

 

 


3 The Globalization of Environmentalism


   The Evolution of Global Discourse on
   Environment and Development

 

   Global Environmental Governance

 

   Conclusion

 

 

 


4 Economic Growth in a World of Wealth and Poverty


   Wealth and Poverty for Market Liberals and Institutionalists

 

   Critiques: Bioenvironmentalists and Social Greens

 

   Conclusion

 

 

 

 

 

5 Global Trade and the Environment


   Globalization and Trade

 

   Trade’s Impact on the Environment:
   Three Schools of Thought

 

   Greening of Environmental Trade Agreements?

 

   Regional Trade Agreements—Opportunity for
   Greener Models?

 

   Conclusion

 

 

 

 

 


6 Global Investment and the Environment


   Globalization and Transnational Corporations

 

   Differential Standards: Pollution Havens,
   Industrial Flight, Double Standards?

 

   TNCs and Site Practices

 

   Greening or Greenwash?

 

   TNCs and Global Governance for
   Investment and the Environment

 

   Conclusion

 

 

 

 

 

7 Global Financing and the Environment


   Scope and Trends in International Finance

 

   Multilateral Lending: The World Bank
   and the IMF

 

   Multilateral Environmental Aid and the
   GEF

 

   Bilateral Finance: ODA and Export
   Credit Agencies

 

   Private Finance and the Environment

 

   Conclusion

 

 

 

 

 

8 Paths to a Green World? Four Visions for
   a Healthy Global Environment


   Market Liberal Vision

 

   Institutionalist Vision

 

   Bioenvironmentalist Vision

 

   Social Green Vision

 

   Clashing Visions?

 

   Notes

 

   References

 

Index


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