Path to a green World

This comprehensive and accessible text fils the need for a political economy ivew of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual academic emphasis on inter-national agreements and institutions, it strives to integrate debates within the real world of global policy and the academic world of theory.
The book maps out an original typology of four contrasting worldviews of environmental change-those of market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens-and uses these as a framework to examine the links between the global political economy and ecological change. This typology not only helps students understand and participated in debates about these worldviews but also provides a common language for students and instructors to discuss the issues across the social sciences.