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Title: Inequality, Democracy & the Environment
Author: DOWNEY LIAM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/11/2015
Imprint: ZED BOOKS
Price: $53.95
Publishing status: Active
The world currently faces several severe social and environmental crises, including economic under-development, widespread poverty and hunger, lack of safe drinking water for one-sixth of the worlds population, deforestation, rapidly increasing levels of pollution and waste, dramatic declines in soil fertility and biodiversity, and global warming. Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment sheds light on the structural causes of these and other social and environmental crises, highlighting in particular the key role that elite-controlled organisations, institutions, and networks play in creating these crises. Liam Downey focuses on four topics – globalisation, agriculture, mining, and U.S. energy and military policy to show how organizational and institutional inequality and elite-controlled organisational networks produce environmental degradation and social harm. He focuses on key institutions like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Military and the World Trade Organization to show how specific policies are conceived and enacted in order to further elite goals.
Ultimately, Downey lays out a path for environmental social scientists and environmentalists to better understand and help solve the worlds myriad social and environmental crises. Inequality, Democracy and the Environment presents a passionate exposé of the true role inequality, undemocratic institutions and organisational power play in harming people and the environment.
ISBN: 9781479843794