The International Political Economy of the Environment: Critical Perspectives

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	2000/309 pages/LC: 00-042553 International Political Economy Yearbook, Vol. 12

All of the chapters raise theoretical questions at the core of research and policymaking that values social equity and environmental health. In combination, they tell a cohesive, substantive story about the IPE of the environment at the beginning of the third millennium.

• Introduction: Problems and Solutions in the International Political Economy of the Environment—the Editors.
• THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL POLICYMAKING.
• Posing Global Environmental Problems from Conservation to Sustainable Development—R. Irwin.
• In Search of Global Standards: The Political Economy of Trade and the Environment—M. Williams.
• International Environmental Politics and the Internationalization of the State: The Cases of Climate Change and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment—D. Egan and D. Levy.
• Environmental NGOs, TNCs, and the Question of Governance—P. Newell.
• POLICY AND POLITICS IN THE SOUTH.
• Tragedy for the Commons: The Enclosure and Commodification of Knowledge—M.A.L. Miller.
• Global Change and the Political Economy of Sustainable Development in Brazil—V. de Campos Mello.
• Development and Risk: Environmental Discourse and Danger in Dominican and Cuban Urban Watersheds—B. Lynch.
• THEORETICAL CHALLENGES.
• A Critical Approach to Institutional and Environmental Effectiveness: Lessons from the Convention on Long- Range Transboundary Air Pollution—G. Kütting.
• International Political Economy and the Environment: A Radical Ecological Perspective—E. Laferrière.
• Commentary: Some Reflections on International Political Economy of the Environmental Question—F. Buttel.
• Commentary: The International Political Economy of the Environment and the Subpolitical Domain—T. Luke.
• Conclusion: History and Purpose in the International Political Economy of the Environment—the Editors.