Presents an overview of the history and politics of nine major environmental issues, including global warming, endangered species, and the international toxic waste trade. The book also assesses the roles and interests of the government and independent agencies calling for global co-operation. This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Recently, I needed to learn a great deal about global environmental issues and global environmental politics in a short period of time. My assistant went and bought more than two dozen books - edited volumes, easy readers, detailed analyses, text books, etc. I surveyed them all and read most cover to cover. This is by far the best. It gave me the essential information in a very readable and well organized format. It was...
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The 2006 edition of this book is excellent. It is entirely new, clear, concise and informative. It has a new author and is so much better that the previous editions it should have a new title.
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I came across this book in a Washingon, D.C. bookstore and consumed the entire thing in a matter of days. It's both lucid and insightful. Interest in so-called international environmental issues is high these days, but very few books are available that even attempt to define what such issues are, much less describe them as a group and relate them to one another. This book is in a class by itself. Not only does it discuss...
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