Politics of the Environment: A Survey

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ISBN: 9781857433418 | 1857433416
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Copyright: 12/13/2007

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This major new series from Routledge offers up-to-date and unbiased surveys covering the politics of a wide variety of contemporary issues of interest to students, academics, business people and general researchers. Expert editors and contributors provide a wealth of information, which is supplemented by maps and statistics where applicable.

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Introduction	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
The Contributors	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Essays
Globalization: The Environment and Development Debate	p. 3
The State, International Relations and the Environment	p. 19
International Political Economy and the Environment	p. 35
International Organizations and the Global Environment	p. 52
Environmental Movements	p. 71
Environmental Politics in Multi-level Governance Systems	p. 87
Mass Media and Environmental Politics	p. 101
The Politics of Climate Change	p. 116
The Ethical Dimensions of Global Environmental Change	p. 136
A-Z Glossary	p. 159
Maps
Protected areas as a percentage of total land area	p. 225
World Heritage Sites: Major wetlands and marine sites	p. 226
Areas of tropical and other rainforest areas	p. 227
Hottest and coldest climate regions	p. 228
Total annual carbon dioxide (CO[subscript 2]) emissions	p. 229
Annual energy consumption per caput	p. 230
Deserts and desertification	p. 231
Antarctica	p. 232
Statistics
Total population (by Human Development Index rank)	p. 235
Annual population growth rate (by Human Development Index rank)	p. 240
Total energy consumption per caput	p. 245
Greenhouse gas emissions-CO[subscript 2] emissions	p. 249
Freshwater resources-water withdrawals	p. 255
Water withdrawals as a percentage of internal water resources	p. 256
Actual renewable water resources per caput	p. 261
Threatened species in each country	p. 267
Numbers of threatened species by major groups of organisms	p. 277
Total forest area	p. 279
Ratification of Environmental Treaties (by Human Development Index rank)	p. 285
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