Societal Processes Interacting With Global Environment

Description

Most environmental issues in the news today, while manifested in biophysical realities, are ultimately linked to historically-rooted, economic, political and cultural drivers that shape power relations and unequal control over and access to resources. This social science concentration is intended for students interested in how environmental issues intersect both with local and global inequalities and with the struggles to change those inequalities. The concentration is meant to highlight how the environment becomes a site at which historically-rooted lines of power (such as gender, race or class) produce diverse patterns of natural resource use and abuse. Through this book “Societal Processes Interacting with Global Environment”, students begin by learning how the international political system works. Given the importance of economic discourses and models in environmental policy making today, students are also asked to acquire a basis in economic thought with focus on environmental economics. This book is immense useful for social scientists and policy-makers who are interested in analyzing social change in the light of globalization.