Encountering Global Environmental Politics illuminates controversial environmental issues by linking them to everyday experience. This is the foundation of high quality teaching and learning.

Mitchell S. Thomashow, Antioch New England Graduate School

We need not shield ourselves from the bleak news of planetary decline nor guilt trip ourselves and others to act. We have only to create environments in which educators and students alike can trust their own yearning for effectiveness in the larger world. As we face environmental and social crises of unprecedented magnitude, nothing could be more important-and Encountering Global Environmental Politics rises to the challenge.

Frances Moore Lappé from the Foreword, author of Hope's Edge: The Next Diet For a Small Planet with Anna Lappé

A veritable 'who's who' of scholar-teachers of global environmental politics, this book . . . will inspire students and teachers alike.

Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Wellesley College

This book makes explicit the obstacles that prevent teachers from teaching effectively and students from learning effectively and provides the tools needed to overcome them. From simulations to service learning to 'theory plays,' the book offers a range of ways to transform 'schooling' into 'education.'. . . Anyone who teaches global environmental politics, whether at the college or high school level, should buy this book!

Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon

All the academic speechifying around environment and development will get us nothing if our students are not inspired to learn, and then to act. This book shows how to make a real difference, at a time when making a difference is crucially important. Use it in the classroom, use it in the field, and slap a few policy makers with it too.

Peter Gleick, president, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, and author of The World's Water 2002-2003: T

Very creative, stimulating. and thought provoking . . . numerous intriguing ideas for classroom innovations that I would love to try.

Marvin S. Soroos, North Carolina State University