Global Environmental Politics - Problems, Policy and Practice

This introduction to global environmental politics examines why environmental challenges occur and how we can effectively respond to them.

List of contents

List of acronyms; List of figures; Preface; 1. Global politics and the environment; Part I. Why Do Environmental Problems Occur?: 2. The tragedy of the commons; 3. Population and poverty; 4. Capitalism; Part II. Responding to Global Environmental Problems: 5. Conflict and securitisation - water; 6. Multilateral diplomacy - sustainable development; 7. Transnational governance experiments - climate change; 8. Aid and finance - deforestation; 9. Individualising responsibility - unsustainable consumption; 10. Problem displacement - hazardous substances; 11. Resistance and localisation - unsustainable agriculture; 12. Appraising global environmental governance; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Hayley Stevenson is Associate Professor in International Relations at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, and Reader in Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance (2012), Democratizing Global Climate Governance (with John S. Dryzek, Cambridge, 2014) and co-editor of Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics: International Relations and the Earth (with Olaf Corry, 2017).

Summary

Outlining the competing explanations of why environmental problems occur, and examining the different political approaches taken to address them, this wide-ranging introduction is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on global environmental politics and environmental policy.

Product details

• Authors: Hayley Stevenson, Hayley (Universidad Torcuato DI Tella Stevenson, Hayley (University of Sheffield) Stevenson, Stevenson Hayley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107121836
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12183-6
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Politics & government, Politics and government, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols