Defensive environmentalists and the dynamics of global reform / Thomas Rudel.

"As global environmental changes become increasingly evident and efforts to respond to these changes fall short of expectations, questions about the circumstances that generate environmental reforms become more pressing. Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform answers thes...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 251 p.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Meta-narratives of environmental reform; 3. Globalization, tight coupling, and cascading events; 4. Partitioning resources, preserving resources; 5. Advantaging offspring, limiting offspring; 6. Choosing foods, saving soils; 7. Removing rubbish, recovering resources, and creating inequalities; 8. Saving money, conserving energy; 9. Focusing events, altruistic environmentalism, and the environmental movement; 10. A sustainable development state; 11. Conclusion: defensive environmentalists, sustainable development states, and global reform; References.