The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics

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Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Ken Conca
Columbia University Press, 1993 - Political Science - 363 pages

The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politicsexamines how the difficult issues of social, political, and economic relations will complicate the efforts initiated at the June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The contributors argue that national governments must begin to acknowledge the role of new actors in their environmental policies.