Environmental Politics

Scale and Power

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ID19907466
AuthorsShannon O’lear (0000-0002-6213-1191, University of Kansas, corresponding author), Shannon O'Lear
Year2010
Publication date2010-08-19
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueEnvironmental Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511779428
OpenAlexW4237581888
Open LibraryOL25541009M
ISBN9780511779428
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDvgw33lMezV4C
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power have contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the formation of dominant narratives about them. The book encourages the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape (and limit) how we think about environmental issues and to expand the reader's understanding of why it matters that these issues are discussed at particular spatial scales. Applying a geographer's sense of scale and power leads to a better understanding of the complexity of environmental issues and will help formulate mitigation and adaptation strategies. The book will appeal mainly to advanced students and researchers from a geography background, but also to social and political scientists who wish to look at the topic from this different perspective

Appeal · Economic geography · Environmental ethics · Geographer · Geography · Ideology · Perspective (graphical) · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Resource (disambiguation) · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Climatic changes · Environmental policy · Environmental protection · Environmentalism · united states

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