Understanding the global environment
By: edited by Samir Dasgupta
Contributors: Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-2019, essayist
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9788131717028
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Environmental economics; Global environmental change
Other titles: Ecology and the economy: What is rational?
Description: Globalization is often discussed in terms of its ecological ramifications. Yet, while ecological imbalance is today one of the greatest threats to mankind, globalization is also a reality that is here to stay. The volume, therefore, seeks to address how globalizing and environmental interests can be reconciled. The essays in this volume state that globalization can work both in favour of and against the environment. The major issues discussed in this topical volume are, how globalization can be used to promote environmental reforms; the role of individuals, private organizations and governments in keeping environmental degradation in check and in promoting environmental reform; globalization and ecological inequality; women, the environment and globalization; changing nature of environmental movements; overpopulation and the ecology; the relation between the ecology and the economy; and the effects of global climate changes.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ecology and the economy: What is rational? -- Immanuel Wallerstein.