Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures
Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures – Review
Leichenko and O’Brien present a framework for carefully examining the multiple and overlapping methods of total change and, in particular, the places and ways in which the economic and the non-economic interact. Double exposure acts as a metaphor for cases in which specific localities or individuals are simultaneously or successively exposed to separate methods of total change. The book argues a large kind of examples in which double exposure is present. The examples involve the slowly melting of Arctic ice, Hurricane Katrina, and the liberalization of rural markets in India. The authors use the point of double exposure to treat all these cases, showing how economic and ecological process relate in convoluted ways. The book should be of major interest to social scientists working in interdisciplinary contexts, and could be useful for graduate seminars, advanced undergraduate courses, and common research purposes. My graduate seminar examine it this semester, and it finitely generated provoking discussions. This book would also be a thought-provoking widely read for people with a common interest in climate change or financial globalization, since the case studies are presented in a way that is both particularly illuminating and relatively jargon-free.