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Political Science Environmental Policy

New Earth Politics

Essays from the Anthropocene

edited by Simon Nicholson & Sikina Jinnah

Publisher
MIT Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2016
Category
Environmental Policy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780262529198
    Publish Date
    Mar 2016
    List Price
    $27.00

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Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress.

Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social capacities for managing it. We are in effect creating an Earth 2.0 on which the human signature is everywhere, a “new earth” in desperate need of humane and insightful guidance. In this volume, prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new earth, and probe the field's deepest and most enduring questions at a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in complementary pairs, the essays in this volume include reflections on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities, reflections on the power of social movements and international institutions, and calls for more compelling narratives to promote environmental action.

At the heart of the volume is sustained attention to the role of traditional scholarly activities in a world confronting environmental disaster. Some contributors make the case that it is the scholar's role to provide activists with the necessary knowledge and tools; others argue for more direct engagement and political action. All the contributors confront the overriding question: What is the best use of their individual and combined energies, given the dire environmental reality?

Contributors
Erik Assadourian, Frank Biermann, Wil Burns, Ken Conca, Peter Dauvergne, Daniel Deudney, Navroz Dubash, Richard Falk, Joyeeta Gupta, Maria Ivanova, Peter Jacques, Sikina Jinnah, Karen T. Litfin, Michael F. Maniates, Elizabeth Mendenhall, Simon Nicholson, Kate O'Neill, Judith Shapiro, Paul Wapner, Oran R. Young

About the authors

Simon Nicholson is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Director of the Global Environmental Politics Program at American University.

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Dr. Sikina Jinnah is Associate Professor of Politics at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is also an 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and an affiliated faculty member at American University's School of International Service and at UCSC's Department of Environmental Studies.

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