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020 _a9781107030527
040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aGE170
_bR913 D 2013
100 1 _aRudel, Thomas K.
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245 1 0 _aDefensive environmentalists and the dynamics of global reform /
_cThomas Rudel, Rutgers University.
300 _a251 p.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Meta-narratives of environmental reform; 3. Globalization, tight coupling, and cascading events; 4. Partitioning resources, preserving resources; 5. Advantaging offspring, limiting offspring; 6. Choosing foods, saving soils; 7. Removing rubbish, recovering resources, and creating inequalities; 8. Saving money, conserving energy; 9. Focusing events, altruistic environmentalism, and the environmental movement; 10. A sustainable development state; 11. Conclusion: defensive environmentalists, sustainable development states, and global reform; References.
505 8 _aHKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M09
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aEnvironmental policy
_xInternational cooperation.
650 0 _aEnvironmental protection
_xInternational cooperation.
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650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
900 _a= C.1 SDU
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