“A compelling expose of the environmental challenges of our time.”

Next week, UTP’s Higher Education Division will publish Global Ecopolitics: Crisis, Governance, and Justice by Peter J. Stoett. This is a unique book with a unique cover that deserves special recognition. In addition to the startling photograph of water pollution on the cover, we have chosen to print both the interior of the book and the cover on 100% recycled, chlorine-free, bio-gas fuelled, non-laminated paper.

Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather, international conventions on climate change, or special UN days of celebration, rarely do we participate in a sustained presentation and analysis of environmental policy making. To remedy this shortcoming and to propel the discussion forward, Global Ecopolitics provides an introduction to environmental governance and the major environmental issues international governance has attempted to address.

Through case studies on biodiversity, deforestation, air and water pollution, trade, and war, Professor Stoett analyzes the effectiveness of international policy in providing environmental protection and discusses the ever-present factors of equality, sovereignty, and human rights integral to these issues. Throughout, Professor Stoett reminds readers that the topic is personal, that effective governance is not solely the responsibility of governments but of individuals and communities as well. With concessions that environmental diplomacy may not always achieve its intended goals, Global Ecopolitics highlights where international policies have succeeded. And throughout, Professor Stoett builds a compelling argument that true change will only happen when angst is replaced with an educated determination to work toward environmental justice, and there is no better time for such a shift than now.

According to Radoslav S. Dimitrov at the University of Western Ontario, Global Ecopolitics is “perhaps the most inspiring book on environmental politics of the last decade.” In another early endorsement, Maria Ivanova, Assistant Professor of Global Governance and Co-Director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston, calls Global Ecopolitics “a compelling exposé of the environmental challenges of our time.”

This January, Peter J. Stoett travelled to Washington, D.C. for a four month research position at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Professor Stoett is working on a project titled “Transborder Counter-Bioinvasion: Canada-US Policy Networks on Invasive Alien Species.”

For more on Professor Stoett’s Fulbright position see www.concordia.ca/now/university-affairs/accolades/20110927/professor-receives-prestigious-fulbright-chair.php.

Note: If you are scheduled to teach a course that would benefit from having this book on the required reading list, please email requests@utphighereducation.com to request an examination copy. We would be more than happy to give you the opportunity to review this excellent text for yourself!

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