Download book Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment

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Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment.cLiam Downey

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Author: Liam Downey
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 18 Dec 2015
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/4798/9781479850723.jpg
ISBN: 9781479843794
File size: 35 Mb
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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 world's 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 organizations, institutions, and networks play in creating these crises. Liam Downey focuses on four topics-globalization, agriculture, mining, and U.S. energy and military policy-to show how organizational and institutional inequality and elite-controlled organizational 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 world's myriad social and environmental crises. Inequality, Democracy and the Environment presents a passionate expose of the true role inequality, undemocratic institutions and organizational power play in harming people and the environment.

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