| Description |
xiv, 365 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series in international environmental policy and theory |
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SUNY series in international environmental policy and theory.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Governing Nature: Global Change, Social Complexity, and Environmental Management -- Ch. 3. Linking the Natural World: Global Civil Society and Social Learning -- Ch. 4. "Guardians of the Forest": Renegotiating Resource Regimes in Northern California -- Ch. 5. Environmentalism in One Country? Global Civil Society and Nature in Hungary -- Ch. 6. Environmental Organizing in Indonesia: The Search for a Newer Order -- Ch. 7. Who Are We? Why Are We Here? Identity, Place, and Global Environmental Sustainability -- Ch. 8. Closing the Circle: Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance |
| Summary |
What will it take to protect the global environment? In this book, Ronnie D. Lipschutz argues that neither world government nor green economies can do the job. Governmental regulations often are resisted by those whose behavior they are intended to change, and markets - even green ones - look to profits more than to protection. What will be needed, Lipschutz believes, is not global management but political action through community- and place-based organizations and projects. People acting together locally can have a cumulative impact on environmental quality that is significant, long lasting, and widespread |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-348) and index |
| Subject |
Community power -- International cooperation.
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Environmentalism -- International cooperation.
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World politics.
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| Author |
Mayer, Judith.
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| LC no. |
95052245 |
| ISBN |
0791431177 |
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0791431185 |
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