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This book argues that environmental problems are, first and foremost, political and, therefore, about power. Using a framework of political economy and political ecology, the authors deconstruct current environmental problems to identify root causes and address those problems through mobilization of collective action and social power. The second edition also offers: •Updated examples and stories of political struggles and the actors involved •Explicit attention to various forms of power in environmental politics, including structural and social power •Local politics and collective action as related to global environmental politics •Discussion of emerging issues such as synthetic biology; commodification and financialization of nature, including carbon markets; and geoengineering

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Global Environmental Politics promises to engage readers in an interesting set of debates while distinguishing its own critical political economy and ecology perspective from the more dominant liberal institutionalist frameworks of global environmental politics textbooks.--Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, University of Waterloo Lipschutz provides a comprehensive consideration of a wide range of inter-linking topics that I believe to be crucial to any consideration of the global environmental crisis.--Lee-Anne Broadhead, Cape Breton University The book grounds the study of global environmental politics within a philosophical framework that helps the student to both understand the structures that currently exist in relation to the environment as well as helping the student to understand that the structures that exist should not be taken as inevitable.--Loren Cass, College of the Holy Cross

A welcome critical introduction to the theory and praxis of global environmental politics. -- Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, University of Waterloo Lipschutz provides a comprehensive consideration of a wide range of inter-linking topics that I believe to be crucial to any consideration of the global environmental crisis. -- Lee-Anne Broadhead, Cape Breton University Lipschutz engages the mainstream global environmental politics scholarship in a way that helps students understand the existing structures that shape international environmental problems and efforts to address these problems. The text provides a foundation to understand how fundamental change can occur, and offers a call to action for students to see the role that they can play in creating change. -- Loren Cass, College of the Holy Cross A tight examination of the political ecology and economy of global environmental politics, with a strong emphasis on demonstrating the relevance of issues to students along with applications for action and activism across scales. -- Desserae Shepston, University of Illinois, Springfield

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Ronnie D. Lipschutz is professor of politics and, from 2012 to 2018, was provost of Rachel Carson College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Doreen Stabinsky is professor of global environmental politics at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

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