Globalization and the environment : capitalism, ecology and power /
By: Newell, Peter (Peter John).
Publisher: Cambridge : Polity, 2012Description: xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780745647227 (hbk.); 9780745647227:; 0745647227 (hbk.); 9780745647234 (pbk.); 0745647235 (pbk.).Subject(s): Globalization -- Environmental aspects | Human ecology | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Nature -- Effects of human beings on | Human beings -- Effect of environment on | Sustainable developmentDDC classification: 338.88Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 338.88 NEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0092428 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-185) and index.
Globalization and the environment : capitalism, ecology and power -- The political ecology of globalization -- The political economy of global environmental governance : power(in) globalization -- Global trade and the environment : whose rules rule? -- Global production and the environment : racing to the top, bottom or middle? -- Global finance and the environment : gambling on green -- Conclusions: Ecologizing globalization / globalizing ecology.
This text explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalisation and the environment. Taking key aspects of globalisation in turn (trade, production and finance) it highlights the relations of power at work that determine whether globalisation is managed in a sustainable way on whose behalf.