Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics From Stockholm To Rio

Annotated with introductions and explanations of key environmental concepts, problems and prospects, this is a collection of pieces on the theme of global environmental politics from a diversity of viewpoints. The contributors highlight important political developments as well as environmental challenges within a rapidly changing international system. The paradigms of sustainable development, environmental security and ecological justice are used to explain topics ranging from climate change, population growth, deforestation, the ozone layer, acid rain and toxic dumping, to trans-boundary pollution and the global commons.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - two decades of global environmental politics, Ken Conca et al. Part 1 The debate at Stockholm: the limits to growth, Donella H. Meadows et al; environment and development - the case of the developing countries, Joatildeo Augusto de Araujo Castro; the tragedy of the commons, Garrett Hardin; no tragedy on the commons, Susan Jane Buck Cox; the tragedy of the commons - 22 years later, David Feeny et al; the scarcity society, William Ophuls. Part 2 Ecology and the structure of the international system: laws, states and super-states - international law and the environment, R.J. Johnston; the shadow ecologies of Western economies, Jim MacNeill et al; the green revolution - the American environmental movement, 1962-1992, Kirkpatrick Sale; the emergence of the environmental movement in Eastern Europe and its role in the revolutions of 1989, Duncan Fisher; fight for the forest, Chico Mendes and Tony Gross. Part 3 The prospects for international environmental co-operation: ozone diplomacy, Richard Elliot Benedick; ozone-layer depletion and global warming - new sources for environmental disputes, Ian H. Rowlands; skinning scientific cats, Sheila Jasanoff; global warming in an unequel world - a case of environmental colonialism, Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain; appraising the Earth Summit - how should we judge UNCED's success?, Peter M. Haas et al. Part 4 Institutions as if the earth mattered: the case for free trade, Jagdish Bhagwati; the perils of free trade, Herman E. Daly; the emperor's new clothes - the World Bank and environmental reform, Bruce Rich; the role of the World Bank, Kenneth Piddington. Part 5 The sustainable-development debate: towards sustainable development - World Commission on Environment and Development; whose common future?, Larry Lohmann; sustainable development - a critical review, Sharachchandra M. Lele. Part 6 From ecological conflict to environmental security?: environmental scarcities and violent conflict - evidence from cases, Thomas F. Homer-Dixon; environmental security - how it works, Norman Myers; the case against linking environmental degradation and national security, Daniel Deudney; for whose benefit? - redefining security, Somaya Saad. Part 7 Ecological justice: the need for eco-justice, Petra Kelly; statement to the UN Conference on Environment and Development, Mahathir Mohamad; two agendas on Amazon - Co-ordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples' Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA); women, poverty and population - issues for the concerned environmentalist, Gita Sen.

About the Author :
Ken Conca is associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and director of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda. Geoffrey D. Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change and Security Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.