Dear GEP-ed friends & colleagues, I wanted pass along this news of a new book here as I think it might be both interesting and useful to many of the GEP-ed list members:
>From Precaution to Profit Contemporary Challenges to Environmental Protection in the Montreal Protocol By: Brian J. Gareau http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300175264 The Montreal Protocol has been cited as the most successful global environmental agreement, responsible for phasing out the use of ozone-depleting substances. But, says Brian Gareau in this provocative and engaging book, the Montreal Protocol has failed—largely because of neoliberal ideals involving economic protectionism but also due to the protection of the legitimacy of certain forms of scientific knowledge. Gareau traces the rise of a new form of disagreement among global powers, members of the scientific community, civil society, and agro-industry groups, leaving them relatively ineffective in their efforts to push for environmental protection. "This extraordinary story of California strawberry growers and neo-liberalism holding the crucial Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion to ransom simply must be read by anyone concerned about the global environment."—Simon Dalby, CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change, Balsillie School of International Affairs "Excellent...will spur a flurry of much-needed debate and scholarship."—Michael Goldman, author of Imperial Nature "If you thought that the Montreal Protocol stands as a beacon of hope for future intergovernmental cooperation to tackle environmental problems, then you need to think again. By looking beyond the early success of the Protocol, Brian Gareau shows how profit-hungry agro-foods companies have sought to place their private interests above those of the public and the non-human world. The Protocol, it turns out, has been subject to the same neoliberal mindset that has so far compromised attempts to drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. If this mindset can’t be broken soon, then the environmental future looks very bleak indeed."—Noel Castree, Manchester University -- Assistant Professor, CIRES Center for Science & Technology Policy University of Colorado-Boulder ~~ http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/boykoff/ twitter: @boykoff Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute University of Oxford ~~ http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/boykoffmax.php
