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Nation-States and the Global Environment is an ambitious, important, and useful book....Historians and interested citizens will find much in
Nation-States and the Global Environment to keep them pondering. One of its great virtues is its global reach and its regional-issue specificity, demonstrating again how environmental problems always occupy multiple spaces."--
Oregon Historical Quarterly"A commendable compilation. Suitable for use in seminars in either environmental or diplomatic history."--
CHOICE"We often make our judgments on our biological future as looming and/or glowing in accordance with our assessment of choices we made on such momentous matters in the past. I advise that we should start that assessment by reading
Nation-States and the Global Environment."--Alfred W. Crosby, author of
Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy"This valuable collection is the most up-to-date and wide-ranging set of essays available on modern environmental history in global context. It tackles one of the most important tensions facing the contemporary world: the cross-national nature of key environmental problems, yet the centrality of nation states to the solution of these problems. The authors provide essential historical depth to current policy discussions and public debate on environmental issues, and pioneering contributions to global and transnational history."--Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales