Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics.

• Author: Harris, Paul G.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (645 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 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
• Index.