INTL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global Environmental Politics, Stockholm Convention On Persistent Organic Pollutants, Community Ownership
21 Sep 2016
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Matell- theory determines what you see and what you look at (ontology vs epistemology) Global governance- working together to resolve some of the problems in the world- states, organizations, etc. Potential solutions: voluntary restraints, regulation, partition, community ownership. Problems of global environmental politics: veto power, political dynamics and trade, economic power, public opinion and ngos. Limits of growth paradigm- the danger of growth and the problem of technology. Use the power of the market and technological innovations to save the day. Klare- end of everything easy- time of easy extraction of resources is passed. Ipat- impacts= population x af uence x impact per unit of income as determine by technology. Pre-industrial revolution is 280 million parts per million. Strategies for dealing with global warming: mitigation, adaption, global engineering. Carbon tax and cap and trade- tax a persons use of carbon. Recall giddens and modelski as well as our reading about the history of globilzation.
