Understanding Global Environmental Politics develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. It argues that the major power structures of world politics are deeply problematic in ecological terms, and that they cannot be easily used to resolve major environmental challenges such as global warming. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to such challenges, therefore, the book argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary.
- ISBN10 0312230907
- ISBN13 9780312230906
- Publish Date 15 July 2000 (first published 7 April 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Edition 2000 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 210
- Language English