Political Science Globalization
Global Environmental Challenges
Perspectives from the South
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2008
- Category
- Globalization, Environmental Policy
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551118208
- Publish Date
- Jan 2008
- List Price
- $42.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487571399
- Publish Date
- Jan 2008
- List Price
- $52.00
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Description
In Global Environmental Challenges, a collection of experts examines globalization's multiple effects on the environments of countries in the Global South, and how they are addressed both domestically and internationally. As the process of globalization continues to unfold, several questions arise: What new environmental challenges has globalization brought to countries in the Global South? Has the international environmental agenda had an effect on the politics and policy of these countries? And finally, to what extent have international civil society actors influenced environmental management? Contributors here address these central questions by presenting eleven case studies from the Global South. In addressing these questions, Global Environmental Challenges examines the complex relationship between environmental management, development, and globalization.
About the authors
Jordi Diez is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Political Change and Environmental Policymaking in Mexico (Routledge, 2006) and editor of Canadian and Mexican Security in the New North America: Challenges and Prospects (McGill-Queen`s University Press, 2006).
O.P. Dwivedi is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. He was bestowed with the Order of Canada in 2005, Canada's highest civilian honour, and has published widely on bureaucratic management as well as the environment, including co-editing Administrative Culture in a Global Context (de Sitter, 2005) and Sustainable Development in Canada: National and International Perspectives (Broadview Press, 2001).