Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Second Edition

Edited by Peter Dauvergne, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION1. Research Trends in Global Environmental PoliticsPeter DauvergnePART II: STATES AND COOPERATION2. When Regimes Backfire: Institutional Expectations and Environmental DeadlockJ. Samuel Barkin3. Changing Issue Structure to Avoid Free Riders: Protecting the Ocean EnvironmentElizabeth R. DeSombre4. International Environmental Regimes as Decision Machines Thomas Gehring5. Climate Regime Design, the Global Warming Potential, and Climate Risk ManagementTora Skodvin6. The Politics of Persuasion: UN Climate Change NegotiationsRadoslav Dimitrov7. Do We Need More Global Sustainability Conferences?Steinar Andresen8. Changing North–South Challenges in Global Environmental PoliticsJoyeeta Gupta9. Environment, Conflict, and PeacebuildingRichard Matthew10. The Comfortable Lie? Another Look at Natural Resource Scarcity and Armed ConflictIndra de SoysaPART III: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE11. Legitimacy Problems and Responses in Global Environmental GovernanceSteven Bernstein12. International Organizations and Global Environmental Governance: Toward Structural ReformFrank Biermann13. Studying the Global Commons: Governance without Politics? John Vogler14. Long-term Environmental Policy: Definition–Origin–Response OptionsDetlef F. Sprinz15. Global Environmental Politics and Governance: A Networks and Flows PerspectiveArthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren16. Global Multilevel Governance and the Management of Hazardous ChemicalsHenrik Selin17. Governing Climate Change: The Challenge of Mitigating and Adapting in a Warming WorldTim Rayner and Andrew Jordan18. Climate Governance ExperimentsMatthew J. Hoffmann19. Global Cities and the Politics of Climate ChangeHarriet Bulkeley and Heike SchroederPART IV: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GOVERNANCE20. The Political Ecology of GlobalizationPeter Newell21. Exploring Global Governance from a Critical Global Political Economy PerspectiveGabriela Kütting22. Nonstate Actors in Global Environmental GovernanceMatthias Finger and David Svarin23. The Effectiveness of Private Environmental GovernanceDoris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni24. Private Actors and Strategies in Global Environmental Governance: The Role of Information DisclosureDavid L. Levy25. Business Power, Business Conflict: A Neo-pluralist Perspective on International Environmental PoliticsRobert Falkner26. Impacts of Nonstate Governance: Lessons from the Certification of Marine FisheriesLars H. Gulbrandsen27. Evaluating World Bank Environmental PerformanceTamar Gutner28. Greening Development Finance: Cases from the World Bank GroupSusan Park29. Moving the Earth: Cars and the Dynamics of Environmental Politics Matthew Paterson30. Trade–Environment Politics: The Emerging Role of Regional Trade AgreementsSikina JinnahPART V: KNOWLEDGE AND ETHICS31. Environmental Human Rights: Greening “the Dignity and Worth of the Human Person”Ken Conca32. Thinking like a Planet: Gaian Politics and the Transformation of the World Food SystemKaren Litfin33. After Nature: Environmental Politics in a Postmodern AgePaul Wapner34. Knowledge, Power and Global Environmental PolicyMarc Williams35. The Global Politics of GeoengineeringDavid Humphreys36. A Sustainability Ethic Thomas Princen37. The Sustainability Debate: Déjà Vu All Over Again?Ronnie D. Lipschutz38. Transnational Environmental Harm, Inequity and the Cosmopolitan ResponseLorraine Elliott39. Democracy and Global Environmental PoliticsKarin Bäckstrand40. Ecological Citizenship RevisitedAndrew DobsonIndex

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