Understanding Global Environmental Polit Author:Patterson Aiming to develop a critical approach to global environmental politics, this work does not advocate the construction of new international institutions, but argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures is necessary. After an examination of policy-making surrounding sea defences, which challenges the notion that poli... more »tical institutions are neutral regarding environmental change, it examines the political dynamics of car culture, and of the meat centred fast food industry.« less