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The Global Environment
Institutions, Law, and Policy

Fifth Edition
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August 2019 | 480 pages | CQ Press
The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption. 
 
Preface
 
Selected Acronyms in Global Environmental Policy
 
Global Environmental Policy: A Brief Chronology
 
Contributors
 
CHAPTER 1 • Governing the Global Environment
 
PART I • INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS
 
CHAPTER 2 • Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs: International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics
 
CHAPTER 3 • International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment
 
CHAPTER 4 • International Environmental Regimes and the Success of Global Ozone Policy
 
CHAPTER 5 • Compliance with Global Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases
 
PART II • BIG PLAYERS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKING
 
CHAPTER 6 • Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism
 
CHAPTER 7 • Promoting Environmental Protection in the European Union
 
CHAPTER 8 • How China’s Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement
 
CHAPTER 9 • The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics
 
PART III • CASES, CONTROVERSIES, AND CHALLENGES
 
CHAPTER 10 • International Climate Change Policy: Complex Multilevel Governance
 
CHAPTER 11 • Global Politics and Policy on Hazardous Substances
 
CHAPTER 12 • Global Biodiversity Governance: Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems
 
CHAPTER 13 • Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance: From the Czech Republic to Fukushima
 
CHAPTER 14 • Free Trade and Environmental Protection
 
CHAPTER 15 • Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments
 
Index

“This is a comprehensive and very accessible, introductory textbook to Global Environmental Politics. It excels in that it nicely integrates Global Environmental Politics into broader International Relations arguments, while discussing the role of intergovernmental organizations and international cooperation for finding effective solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems of our time.”

Patrick Bayer
University of Glasgow

The Global Environment is a strong and authoritative introductory text. The content is of the highest quality, written by an array of notable experts. The editors have done a fantastic job at arranging that multidisciplinary—and potentially unwieldy--content into a coherent framework. Readers will appreciate the clear prose.”

Michael Byron Nelson
Monmouth College

“I very much appreciate the comparative case study between Montreal and climate change.  The regime theory approach is also very useful, especially for my non-IR majors.”

Shannon M. Gibson
University of Southern California

Its topics add a new point of view for my courses, so I try to include in my schedule.

Professor Gustavo Rodríguez
Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero
December 16, 2022

Regina S. Axelrod

Regina S. Axelrod is professor of political science and chair of the political science department at Adelphi University. She has published numerous articles and books on environmental and energy policy in the United Sates, the European Union, and Central Europe, including Environment, Energy, Public Policy: Toward a Rational Future and Conflict between Energy and Urban Environment. She has lectured at Charles University, Prague, and the University of Budapest on nuclear power and the transition to democracy. She is an academic associate of the Atlantic Council and past president of the New York Political Science Association. In 2007, she... More About Author

Stacy Dale VanDeveer

Stacy D. VanDeveer is professor of political science and chair of the department at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include global and regional environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, comparative environmental politics, the connections between environmental and security issues, the roles of expertise in policymaking and the geopolitics of resource consumption. In addition to authoring and coauthoring over 75 articles, book chapters, working papers, and reports, he is the coeditor of Saving the Seas (1997), EU Enlargement and the Environment (2005), Changing Climates in North American Politics (2009),... More About Author

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