Globalization, Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism - Consciousness of Connections

Klappentext In both scientific research and public interest over the past two decades there has been a growing attention to environmental matters. This volume presents the views of a number of leading figures concerning the nature of environmental consciousness and the emergence of connections linking globalization (processes of intensifying social, political, and economic networks), globalism (our sense of the world as a whole), specific environments (such as rainforests or cities), and environmentalism (expressed in the activities of social movement organizations). Zusammenfassung This volume presents views on environmental consciousness and the emergence of connections linking globalisation (processes of intensifying social, political, and economic networks), globalism (our sense of the world as a whole), specific environments (e.g. rainforests, cities), and environmentalism (activities of social movement organizations). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction` 1: Eugene P. Odum: How Ecology has Changes 2: Calestous Juma: International Trade and Environment: Towards Integrative Responsibility 3: Steven Yearley: Social Movements as Problematic Agents of Global Environmental Change 4: Chris Rose and Peter Melchett: Global Citizens: Campaigning for Environmental Solutions 5: Manuel Castells: Global Networks and Local Societies: Cities in the Information Age 6: Herbert Girardet: Cities, People, Planet 7: Maurice Strong: Global Sustainable Development 8: Darrell Addison Posey: Fragmenting Cosmic Connections: Converting Nature into Commodity 9: Marcia Langton: The 'Wild', the Market and the Native: Indigenous People Face New Forms of Global Colonization

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Steven Vertovec, Steven ( Vertovec, Steven (Professor of Transnational Anthr Vertovec, Steven Posey Vertovec
• Mitarbeit: Darrell A Posey (Herausgeber), Darrell A. Posey (Herausgeber), Darrell Addison Posey (Herausgeber), Posey Darrell A. (Herausgeber), Steven Vertovec (Herausgeber), Steven Allen Vertovec (Herausgeber), Vertovec Steven (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.01.2004
• EAN: 9780199264520
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926452-0
• Seiten: 194
• Serien: Linacre Lectures; Linacre Lectures
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Globalization, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmentalist thought and ideology