Green politics: An A-to-Z guide

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Green politics: An A-to-Z guide

Role

Editors: Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins

Contributing author: David Downie

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Description/Summary

David Downie is a contributing author, "Brundtland commission," p.43-44, and " Stockholm convention," p.376-378.

Book description:

A hallmark of the past 100 years has been the greening of political thought and practice. Today, there are green political parties, green organizations, and green consumer goods, all of which show how our decisions to organize, donate, and consume have been infused with green politics, which in many ways is all about values. Green politics has grown in the popular imagination as well. Every day there are headlines about climate change, impacts of resource extraction, or chemical pollution in poor neighborhoods. Underlying all of these stories are classic political questions about power, representation, and ultimate values.Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide covers the availability and distribution of such resources as energy and how they impact economic development, domestic politics, and international cooperation and conflict. Other issues of equal importance to be covered include watershed resources (what happens when countries share a river and one country siphons off or pollutes waters before they reach other countries), other natural resources (for instance, industrialized countries attempting to dictate to developing countries about rainforest resources, whaling countries versus those seeking total bans on whaling as an industry), air pollution, global health and epidemiology (e.g., constraining the spread of potential pandemics, radioactive fall-out across countries from nuclear accidents like Chernobyl). From A-to-Z, the politics of these and similar "green" issues are thoroughly explored via 150 signed entries. Vivid photographs, searchable hyperlinks, numerous cross references, an extensive resource guide, and a clear, accessible writing style make the Green Society volumes ideal for classroom use as well as for research.

ISBN

9781412996792

Publication Date

2011

Publication Information

Downie, D. (2011). Brundtland commission. In D. Mulvaney & P. Robbins (Eds.), Green politics: An A-to-Z guide (pp. 43-44). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412971867.n13

Downie, D. (2011). Stockholm convention. In D. Mulvaney & P. Robbins (Eds.), Green politics: An A-to-Z guide (pp. 376-378). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412971867.n117

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Copyright 2010 Sage Publications, Inc.

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