Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of global environmental politics.
Fully revised, updated and expanded to 45 chapters, the book:

• Describes the history of global environmental politics as a discipline and explains the various theories and perspectives used by scholars and students to understand it
• Examines the key actors and institutions in global environmental politics, explaining the roles of states, international organizations, regimes, international law, foreign policy institutions, domestic politics, corporations and transnational actors
• Addresses the ideas and themes shaping the practice and study of global environmental politics, including sustainability, consumption, expertise, uncertainty, security, diplomacy, North-South relations, globalization, justice, ethics, public participation and citizenship
• Assesses the key issues and policies within global environmental politics, including energy, climate change, ozone depletion, air pollution, acid rain, transport, persistent organic pollutants, hazardous wastes, rivers, wetlands, oceans, fisheries, marine mammals, biodiversity, migratory species, natural heritage, forests, desertification, food and agriculture

This second edition includes new chapters on plastics, climate change, energy, earth system governance and the Anthropocene. It is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, researchers and practitioners of environmental politics, environmental studies, environmental science, geography, globalization, international relations and political science.
Chapter 19 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

List of contents

Part I: Introduction  1. Global environmental politics: charting the domain  Part II: Explaining and understanding global environmental politics  2. The discipline of global environmental politics: a short history  3. Mainstream theories: realism, rationalism and revolutionism  4. Alternative theories: constructivism, Marxism, critical theory and feminism  5. The study of global environmental politics: strategies for research and learning  6. Advanced scholarship: interdisciplinary research at the science-policy interface  Part III: Actors and institutions in global environmental politics  7. States: nations, sovereignty and the international system  8. International organizations: global and regional environmental cooperation  9. International environmental regimes: formation, effectiveness, trends and challenges  10. International environmental law: sources, principles and innovations  11. Environmental foreign policy: crossovers among levels of governance  12. Comparative environmental politics: contributions from an emerging field  13. Corporations: business and industrial influence  14. Transnational actors: Nongovernmental organizations, civil society and individuals  Part IV: Ideas and themes in global environmental politics  15. The Anthropocene: rethinking humanity's role in the earth system  16. Sustainability: from ideas to action in international relations  17. Consumption: institutions and actors  18. Expertise: specialized knowledge in environmental politics and sustainability  19. Uncertainty: risk, technology and the future  20. Environmental security: international scope, national regimes and the human dimension  21. Earth system governance: world politics in the post-environmental age  22. Environmental diplomacy: international conferences and negotiations  23. North-South relations: colonialism, empire and international order  24. Globalization and the environment: economic changes and challenges  25. International justice: rights and obligations of states  26. Environmental justice: pollution, poverty and marginalized communities  27. Environmental ethics: philosophy, ecology and other species  28. Participation: public opinion and environmental action  29. Environmental citizenship: de-politicizing or re-politicizing environmental politics?  Part V: Key issues and policies in global environmental politics  30. Air pollution and acid rain: early action and slowing progress  31. Stratospheric ozone depletion: elements of success in global environmental politics  32. Climate change: international diplomacy and governance from top to bottom  33. Energy: political-economic strategies  34. Transport and infrastructure: toward sustainable mobility  35. Persistent organic pollutants: managing threats to human health and the environment  36. Hazardous waste: fragmented governance and aspirations for environmental justice  37. Plastics: from resources to waste and back again  38. Water, rivers and wetlands: governance paradigms and principles  39. Pollution and management of oceans and seas: challenges in an unresponsive international system  40. Fisheries and marine mammals: the complexities of collective management  41. Biodiversity, migratory species and natural heritage: global challenges ahead  42. Forests: the political ecology of international environmental governance  43. Desertification: competing knowledge claims and land-management agendas  44. Food and agriculture: global dynamics and environmental consequences  Part VI: Conclusion  45. The promises of global environmental politics: prospects for study and practice

About the author

Paul G. Harris has authored or edited 25 books on global environmental and climate change politics, policy and justice. He is the Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong.

Summary

This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Global Environmental Politics.

Product details

• Authors: Paul G. (The Education University of Hong Harris
• Assisted by: Paul G. Harris (Editor), Harris Paul G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9780367692414
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69241-4
• No. of pages: 628
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Climate Change, Applied ecology, Politics & government, Politics and government, Environmental policy & protocols, Human Geography, Environmental policy and protocols