Harris - Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

This book offers readers the most comprehensive coverage of global environmental politics yet published in a single volume, including examination of key issues, policies, actors, institutions and theories. It brings together leading international academic experts to:

Describe the history of global environmental politics as a discipline and explain the various theories and perspectives used by scholars and students to understand it.

Examine the key actors and institutions in global environmental politics, explaining the role of states, international organizations, regimes, international law, foreign policy institutions, domestic politics, corporations and transnational actors.

Address the ideas and themes shaping the practice and study of global environmental politics, including sustainability, consumption, expertise, uncertainty, security, diplomacy, NorthSouth relations, globalization, justice, ethics, participation and citizenship.

Assess the key issues and policies within global environmental politics, including energy, climate change, ozone depletion, air pollution, acid rain, sustainable transport, persistent organic pollutants, hazardous wastes, water, rivers, wetlands, oceans, fisheries, marine mammals, biodiversity, migratory species, natural heritage, forests, desertification, food and agriculture.

This is an invaluable and comprehensive resource for students, scholars, researchers and practitioners of environmental politics and policy, environmental studies, international relations, foreign policy, geography and development studies.

Paul G. Harris is Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

Edited by Paul G. Harris

First published 2014

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Routledge handbook of global environmental politics/edited by Paul G. Harris.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Environmental policyInternational cooperation. I. Harris, Paul G.

GE170.R68 2013

304.2dc23

2013003615

ISBN: 978-0-415-69420-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-79905-5 (ebk)

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Contents

Paul G. Harris

Loren R. Cass

John Vogler

Hayley Stevenson

Juliann Emmons Allison

Peter M. Haas and Ronald B. Mitchell

Hugh C. Dyer

Kate ONeill

Mary E. Pettenger

David B. Hunter

Mihaela Papa

Stacy D. VanDeveer and Paul F. Steinberg

Kyla Tienhaara

Christian Downie

Thomas Princen

Gabriela Ktting

Andrew Karvonen and Ralf Brand

Karen Hussey and Stephen Dovers

Sabina W. Lautensach and Alexander K. Lautensach

Radoslav S. Dimitrov

Shangrila Joshi

Lada V. Kochtcheeva

Steve Vanderheiden

Hollie Nyseth Brehm and David N. Pellow

Sofia Guedes Vaz and Olivia Bina

Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt

Derek Bell

Hugh C. Dyer

David Downie

Loren R. Cass

Iain Docherty

David Downie and Jessica Templeton

Henrik Selin

Jens Newig and Edward Challies

Peter J. Jacques

Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Volker Mauerhofer and Felister Nyacuru

David Humphreys

Meri Juntti

Jennifer Clapp and Sarah J. Martin

Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

Derek Bell is Senior Lecturer in Political Thought at Newcastle University, UK.

Olivia Bina is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Ralf Brand is senior mobility consultant at Rupprecht Consult, Cologne, Germany.

Loren R. Cass is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Environmental Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.

Edward Challies is a postdoctoral research associate with the Research Group Governance, Participation and Sustainability at Leuphana University Lneburg, Germany.

Jennifer Clapp is CIGI Chair in Global Environmental Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor in the Environment and Resource Studies Department at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Elizabeth R. DeSombre is Frost Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College, USA.

Radoslav S. Dimitrov is Associate Professor of Political Science at Western University, Canada.

Iain Docherty is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Glasgow Business School, UK.

Stephen Dovers is Director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University.

Christian Downie is a member of the Climate and Environmental Governance Network at the Australian National University.

David Downie is Director of the Program on the Environment at Fairfield University, USA.

Hugh C. Dyer is Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Peter M. Haas is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

Paul G. Harris is Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

David Humphreys is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the Open University, UK.

David B. Hunter is Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at the American University Washington College of Law.

Karen Hussey is Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University.

Peter J. Jacques is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Shangrila Joshi is Consortium for Faculty Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at Denison University, USA.

Meri Juntti is Lecturer in Sustainable Development and Sustainable Environmental Management in the Department of Social Sciences at Middlesex University, UK.