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Counting Species: Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics
Rafi Youatt
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Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5. BIC Classification: RNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Three decades of biodiversity governance has largely failed to stop the ongoing environmental crisis of global species loss. Yet that governance has resulted in undeniably important political outcomes. In Counting Species, Rafi Youatt argues that the understanding of global biodiversity has produced a distinct vision and politics of nature, one that is bound up with ideas about species, norms of efficiency, and apolitical forms of technical management. Since its inception in the 1980s, biodiversity's political power has also hinged on its affiliation with a series of political concepts. Biodiversity was initially articulated as a moral crime against ... Read more
Three decades of biodiversity governance has largely failed to stop the ongoing environmental crisis of global species loss. Yet that governance has resulted in undeniably important political outcomes. In Counting Species, Rafi Youatt argues that the understanding of global biodiversity has produced a distinct vision and politics of nature, one that is bound up with ideas about species, norms of efficiency, and apolitical forms of technical management. Since its inception in the 1980s, biodiversity's political power has also hinged on its affiliation with a series of political concepts. Biodiversity was initially articulated as a moral crime against ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816694112
SKU
V9780816694112
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About Rafi Youatt
Rafi Youatt is assistant professor of politics at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.
Reviews for Counting Species: Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics
This book is an intelligent and insightful analysis transcending disciplines and connecting complex structures. -Environmental Values