Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199276293 ISBN 13: 9780199276295

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Debating the Earth brings together more than 40 essential readings which illustrate the diversity of political responses to environmental issues. The readings are organized in a way that emphasizes the differences and debates across the various schools of thought on environmental affairs.

The second edition includes a new section, The Global South and Indigenous Perspectives, and offers 25 new extracts.

About this title

About the Author:

John S. Dryzek was the Head of the Political Science Departments at both Oregon and Melbourne. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He is currently the Head of the Social and Political Theory Program
at The Australian National University David Schlosberg has taught at Northern Arizona University and the London School of Economics and is currently on sabbatical from the University of Arizona as a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellow at ANU, Canberra.

Review:

`The editors should be congratulated on putting together a collection in which every item is worth reading and where the whole is equal to the sum of the parts'
Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University.

`I am convinced that this excellent, accessible and wide-ranging book will find its way into many libraries and on to personal bookshelves'R
Geoff A. Wilson- Professor of human geography, Plymouth University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0199276293
• ISBN 13: 9780199276295
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Dryzek John S., Schlosberg David