Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform
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Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform

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Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform

About this book

As global environmental changes become increasingly evident and efforts to respond to these changes fall short of expectations, questions about the circumstances that generate environmental reforms become more pressing. Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform answers these questions through a historical analysis of two processes that have contributed to environmental reforms, one in which people become defensive environmentalists concerned about environmental problems close to home and another in which people become altruistic environmentalists intent on alleviating global problems after experiencing catastrophic events such as hurricanes, droughts and fires. These focusing events make reform more urgent and convince people to become altruistic environmentalists. Bolstered by defensive environmentalists, the altruists gain strength in environmental politics and reforms occur.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures
  3. List of Tables
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 Meta-Narratives of Environmental Reform
  7. 3 Globalization, Tight Coupling, and Cascading Events
  8. 4 Partitioning Resources, Preserving Resources?
  9. 5 Advantaging Offspring, Limiting Offspring
  10. 6 Choosing Foods, Saving Soils
  11. 7 Removing Rubbish, Recovering Resources, Creating Inequalities
  12. 8 Saving Money, Conserving Energy
  13. 9 Focusing Events, Altruistic Environmentalists, and the Environmental Movement
  14. 10 A Sustainable Development State?
  15. 11 Conclusion
  16. References
  17. Index