1st Edition

The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disasters

Edited By Susan Park Copyright 2023
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: The politics of 21st century environmental disasters

Susan Park

1. The role of the Sovereign state in 21st century environmental disasters

Susan Park

2. Planetary disasters: moving the UN disaster risk reduction framework into cosmopolitised reality

Sabine Selchow

3. Rehabilitating Ranger uranium mine:scientific uncertainty, deep futures and the production of ignorance

Rebecca Lawrence

4. Disaster? No surprise

Christine J. Winter

5. Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects

Teresa Kramarz

Biography

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.