Description
| Product ID: | 9781849049672 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Published in Collaboration with: Georgetown University Centre for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service |
| Title: | Environmental Politics in the Middle East |
| Subtitle: | Local Struggles, Global Connections |
| Authors: | Author: Harry Verhoeven |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Middle Eastern history, Middle Eastern history, Political economy, Environmental policy and protocols, Pollution and threats to the environment, Political economy, Environmental policy & protocols, Pollution & threats to the environment, Middle East |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about them. This book investigates how ecology and politics meet in the Middle East and how those interactions connect to the global political economy. Through region-wide analyses and case studies from the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf of Aden, the Levant and North Africa, the volume highlights the intimate connections of environmental activism, energy infrastructure and illicit commodity trading with the political economies of Central Asia, the Horn of Africa and the Indian subcontinent. The book''s nine chapters analyse how the exploitation and representation of the environment have shaped the history of the region--and determined its place in global politics. It argues that how the ecological is understood, instrumentalised and intervened upon is the product of political struggle: deconstructing ideas and practices of environmental change means unravelling claims of authority and legitimacy. This is particularly important in a region frequently seen through the prism of environmental determinism, where ruling elites have imposed authoritarian control as the corollary of ''environmental crisis''. This unique and urgent collection will question much of what we think we know about this pressing issue. |
| Imprint Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-09-20 |