Negotiating the Environment: Civil Society, Globalisation and the Un

ISBN-13: 9780367606602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 132 str.

Lauren E. Eastwood

Opis

This book elucidates the complexity of how participants engage in these negotiations through the various processes that take place under the auspices of the UN – primarily those related to climate, biodiversity and forest agreements.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

Chapter 1: The Politics of Nature and the Nature of Politics

Chapter 2: Setting the Scene: The UN as an Ethnographic Research Site

Chapter 3: The Contested Terrain of Action: Civil Society in UN Climate Negotiations

Chapter 4: Civil Society Engagement in Regulating Biotechnology under the UN

Chapter 5: The Elephant in the Room: The Treadmill of Production as the Root Cause of Environmental Harm

Index

O autorze

Lauren E. Eastwood is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA.