Isabella Alcañiz

Environmental and Nuclear Networks in the Global South

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive study to explain the workings of transgovernmental environmental and nuclear cooperation across the so-called 'Global South'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781107150119
• ISBN-10: 1107150116
• Artikelnr.: 45155233

Autorenporträt

Isabella Alcañiz is Assistant Professor and the Harrison Distinguished Professor in Environmental Politics at the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park. Professor Alcañiz grew up in South America and has carried out extensive field research in Latin America and Africa. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Houston, and universities in Argentina and Europe. Her research is published in World Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, the Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, and Environmental Science and Policy. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why do bureaucrats cooperate? International inter-agency networks in the
Global South; 2. Bureaucrats across borders; 3. Skill formation, economic
crisis, and expert networks in the nuclear sectors of Argentina and Brazil;
4. International inter-agency cooperation in nuclear energy, science, and
technology (NEST); 5. Explaining international inter-agency cooperation in
nuclear energy, science, and technology (NEST); 6. International
inter-agency cooperation in the protection of the global environment; 7.
Explaining international inter-agency cooperation in the protection of the
environment; 8. After austerity; 9. Conclusion: the hidden costs of low
skills.