New earth politics : essays from the Anthropocene / / Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (457 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.7
• Soggetto topico: Environmental protection - Social aspects; Environmental protection - Political aspects; Human ecology - Social aspects; Human ecology - Political aspects; Environmentalism - Social aspects; Environmentalism - Political aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: ENVIRONMENT/General; ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General
• Persona (resp. second.): JinnahSikina <1977->; NicholsonSimon (Simon James)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Living on a New Earth; Section 1 Causes of the New Earth; 1 The Changing Shape of Global Environmental Politics; 2 Green Earth: The Emergence of Planetary Civilization; Section 2 Scholarship as Engagement; 3 The Co-production of Knowledge about International Governance: Living on the Science/Policy Interface; 4 Scholarship as Citizenship; Section 3 Pedagogies of Hope; 5 Person/Planet Politics: Contemplative Pedagogies for aNew Earth; 6 Make Way for Hope: A Contrarian View; Section 4 New Earth Institutions ; 7 Institutional Politics and Reform8 An Engaged Scholarship Narrative; Section 5 Social Movements and Civil Society; 9 Autonomy and Activism in Civil Society; 10 Converting the Environmental Movement into a Missionary Religious Force; Section 6 New Earth Geopolitics; 11 Toward Sharing Our Ecospace; 12 China on the World Stage*; Section 7 Climate Change: The New Earth's Defining Problem; 13 Climate Change through the Lens of Energy Transformation; 14 Governing Climate Engineering; Section 8 Narrative Frames for Living on a New Earth; 15 Living at the Margins ; 16 The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and IllusionsEpilogue Politics for a New Earth: Governing in the "Anthropocene"; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, included are - 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: New earth politics
• ISBN: 0-262-33213-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465952303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Earth System Governance