She teaches courses on environmental policy, environmental geopolitics, and on Russia and Eurasia.
She has also published on environmental terrorism, territorial conflict, and genocide. Her research has focused on energy, environment, and politics in the South Caucasus. Shannon O’Lear is a Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas. Although the book reviews and applies theoretical concepts of scale and power, it limits the use of jargon and presents ideas and information in a style accessible to a broad audience. The book will appeal mainly to advanced students and researchers of environmental politics from a geography background but will also appeal to social and political scientists who wish to look at the topic from this different perspective. Applying a geographer’s sense of scale and power leads to a better understanding of the complexity of environmental issues and will help formulate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
The book encourages the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape (and limit) how we think about environmental issues and to expand the reader’s understanding of why it matters that these issues are discussed at particular spatial scales. This book considers issues of climate change, oil and energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological, and military power have contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the formation of dominant narratives about them. Our thinking about specific environmental problems tends to be locked in at particular spatial scales, which limits our understanding of how those issues have been created, maintained, or hidden from view. In this book Shannon O’Lear brings a geographer’s perspective to the important subject of environmental politics.
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