The Environment in Crisis

environment in crisis cover
Edition:
3rd
Date of publication:
February 2006
ISBN:
1-878585-51-7
Pages:
138
Price:
$19.95


  • Chapter 1: Valuing the Environment in Economic Theory
    • The Growth Consensus Unravels Jonathan Rowe
    • Ecological Footprints David Holtzman
    • Is the U.S. Making Progress? Unlike the GDP, a new measure says "no" Marc Breslow
    • Pricing the Priceless: Inside the Strange World of Cost-Benefit Analysis Lisa Heinzerling and Frank Ackerman
    • Let's Just Assume We're Sustainable William E. Rees
  • Chapter 2: Corporate Power and Environmental Policy
    • Industry Attacks on Dissent: From Rachel Carson to Oprah Laura Orlando
    • War on the Earth Bob Feldman
    • Is the United States a Pollution Haven? Frank Ackerman
    • Genetic Engineering and the Privatization of Seeds Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset
    • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Workers in the Global Environment Laurie Dougherty
  • Chapter 3: The Politics and Economics of Global Warming
    • Car Trouble: The Automobile as an Environmental and Health Disaster Alejandro Reuss
    • Global Warming: How Big Business Controls the Debate in the U.S.-- Not To Worry, Say U.S. Lobbyists David L. Levy
    • Business and Climate Change: Privatizing Environmental Regulation? David L. Levy
    • Two Cheers for OPEC Marc Breslow
    • Toward a Global Energy Transition Ross Gelbspan
    • National Energy Plan? Adria Scharf and Thad Williamson
  • Chapter 4: Global Capitalism and Resources Scarcity
    • Wringing Out The World Laura Orlando
    • Whose Right to Water? Kevin Murray
    • Hunters or Shepherds of the Sea? Understanding the Fisheries Crisis of the Northwest Atlantic Samuel Scott
    • Extinction is Forever: Debating Dams and Dollars in the Northwest Salmon Crisis Jan Clausen
  • Chapter 5: Environmental Protection and the Developing World
    • Fool's Gold: Ten Problems with Gold Mining Project Underground
    • Sustainable Sanitation: A Global Health Challenge Laura Orlando
    • Financing Environmental Moderation in China Daniel Delisi
    • Filipino Dump Activists Turn Waste into Wealth Eugenio Gonzales and Liz Stanton
  • Chapter 6: Changing the System, Changing How We Live
    • Not the Owners of the Earth: Capitalism and Environmental Destruction Skip Barry
    • Achieving the Good Life: Adapted from Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living Jerome M. Segal
    • What an Environmentally Sustainable Economy Looks Like Thad Williamson