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Informationen zum Autor Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and former Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy. He is associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics , and sits on the editorial board of Global Environmental Change and the Journal of Environment and Development . He is the author and co-author of eight books (including Globalization and the Environment ), more than 40 journal articles, and 40 book chapters on topics relating to globalization and the environment. J. Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, where he was Director of the Center for Environmental Studies. A Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Roberts has written 11 books and over 70 articles on climate change and global environmental politics. He was recently appointed to the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academy of Sciences. Klappentext The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development.* Offers a comprehensive collection of nearly 30 classic and cutting-edge readings spanning a broad range of perspectives within this increasingly important field* Addresses the question of whether economic globalization is the prime cause of the destruction of the global environment - or if some forms of globalization could help to address global environmental problems* Features carefully edited extracts selected both for their importance and their accessibility* Covers a variety of topics such as the 'marketization' of nature, debates about managing and governing the relationship between globalization and the environment, and discussions about whether or not globalization should be 'greened'* Systematically captures the breadth and diversity of the field without assuming prior knowledge* Offers a timely and necessary insight into the future of our fragile planet in the 21st century Zusammenfassung The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' Introduction: The Globalization and Environment Debate 1 J. Timmons Roberts and Peter Newell Part I Going Global 21 Introduction 23 1 The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? (2007) 27 Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill 2 Address at the Closing Ceremony of the Eighth and Final Meeting of the World Commission on Environment and Development and the Tokyo Declaration (1987) 43 Gro Harlem Brundtland 3 Foxes in Charge of the Chickens (1993) 51 Nicholas Hildyard 4 Can the Environment Survive the Global Economy? (1997) 63 Edward Goldsmith 5 Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy (2002) 77 Arthur P. J. Mol 6 Environment and Globalization: Five Propositions (2010) 94 Adil Najam, David Runnalls, and Mark Halle Part II The Nature of Globalization - Cases and Trends in Globalization 109 Introduction 111 7 The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital (1997) 117 Robert Costanza, Ralph d'Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O'Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Marjan Van den Belt, and Paul Sutton 8 Sustainability and Markets: On the Neoclassical Model of Environmental Economics (1997) 134 Michael Jacobs 9 Crafting the Next Generation of Market-Based Environmental Tools (1997) 148 Je...
