Future as Fairness : Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship /
edited by Anne K. Haugestad, J.D. Wulfhorst.
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource.
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Introduction -- PART I Facing the Challenges -- Andrew DOBSON: Ecological Citizenship and Global Justice: Two Paths Converging? -- Ivan IVANOV, Angela G. MERTIG and Roberto BERTOLLINI: Environment and Health in Post-Communist Societies: Public Concerns, Attitudes and Behaviour -- J.D. WULFHORST and Jennifer KAMM: America's Nuclear Waste: Tribal Sovereignty, Injustice, and Technological Conflict -- Achim SCHLÜTER: Views from a Producer Town: Public Perceptions, Technology and the Distribution of Environmental Risks -- Peter T. ROBBINS, Elisa PIERI und Guy COOK: GM Scientists and the Politics of the Risk Society -- PART II Taking Responsibility -- Lucy H. FORD: The Power of Technocracy: A Critical Analysis of the Global Environmental Governance of the Toxic Waste Trade -- Evy CRALS, Mark KEPPENS and Lode VEREECK: Tradable Fuel Permits: Towards a Sustainable Road Transport System -- Bob FOWLES: The Quest for 'A Beautiful Act': Meeting Human and Ecological Rights in Creating the Sustainable Built Environment -- Roselle MIKO and Shirley THOMPSON: The Environmental Impact of Housing: Local and Global Ecological Footprint of a House -- PART III Building Alliances -- Paul TOYNE: Forestry and Illegal Logging: Law, Technology and the Environment in Natural Resource Management -- Ruby PAP: Solid Waste Management in Jamaica: Household and Institutional Perspectives -- Anne K. HAUGESTAD: Norwegians as Global Neighbours and Global Citizens -- Robert WOOG and Vladimir DIMITROV: Globalisation from a Complexity Perspective: Explored not as an Abomination but as Irresistible Human Enterprise -- Notes on Contributors.. - Twenty years after the establishment of the World Commission on Environment and Development, the 13 contributions in this interdisciplinary volume offer a broad spectrum of perspectives and research-based recommendations on environmental sustainability, social justice and the human enterprise. The cases explored cover global citizenly rights and obligations, environmental health, ecological building practices, tradable fuel permits, forestry and illegal logging, local waste management, employment and risk assessments, the genetic modification debate, nuclear and toxic waste, global environmental governance and 500 years of globalization.
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| ISBN | 1-4175-6431-8. - 94-012-0103-X
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