The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disasters

Susan Park (The University of Sydney, Australia)

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Routledge
28 November 2024

Social & political philosophy; Politics & government; Geography; Natural disasters

This book explores the main concerns for grappling with increasing environmental disasters and examines how environmental disasters are understood by states, corporations, and non-government organizations nationally and internationally.

The focus of this book is threefold: first, to investigate what constitutes an environmental disaster and to identify the parameters for political responses nationally and internationally. Second, the chapters analyse contemporary state practices that exacerbate the impact of, and responses to, environmental disasters. They show how states promote extractivism based on limited understandings of nature drawn from Western philosophy. Finally, the book highlights the strengths and weaknesses in political and institutional responses at the local level to such disasters by state and non-state actors. This shows how both slow and fast violence of environmental disasters affects communities, but also how vulnerable subjects are based on people’s capabilities.

The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disasters is an indispensable resource for students and scholars in political science and environmental studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

Edited by: Susan Park (The University of Sydney Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032496757
ISBN 10: 1032496754
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction: The politics of 21st century environmental disasters 1. The role of the Sovereign state in 21st century environmental disasters 2. Planetary disasters: moving the UN disaster risk reduction framework into cosmopolitised reality 3. Rehabilitating Ranger uranium mine:scientific uncertainty, deep futures and the production of ignorance 4. Disaster? No surprise 5. Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects

Susan Park is Professor of Global Governance in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She focuses on how International Organisations and global governance can become greener and more accountable, particularly in the transition to renewable energy.