International Environmental Politics

Ronald Mitchell is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon. His book Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance won the 1995 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association for the best book on international environmental issues. His most recent book is Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence, edited with William C. Clark, David Cash, and Nancy M. Dickson and published by MIT Press. He has published numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes. He teaches courses on international relations, international environmental politics, and international organization.

• Part 1: International Environmental Problems and their SourcesOverview of the problemsGlobal change and the earth system: a planet under pressure - Will Steffen, Angelina Sanderson, Peter Tyson, Jill Jäger, Pamela Matson, Berrien Moore III, Frank Oldfield, Katherine Richardson, John Schellnhuber, B.L. Turner II, and Robert WassonSustainability science - Robert W. Kates et alEntering the century of the environment: a new social contract for science. - Jane LubchencoThe long-term development of global environmental risk management: conclusions and implications for the future - Josee van Eijndhoven, William C. Clark, and Jill JägerBasic structural forcesThe IPAT equation and its variants: changing views of technology and environmental impact. - Marian R. Chertow PopulationAn essay on the principle of population - T. R. MalthusOptimum human population size - Gretchen Daily, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul EhrlichTragedy of the CommonsThe tragedy of the commons - Garrett HardinCommon-pool resources and international environmental politics - J. Samuel Barkin and George E. ShambaughReformulating the commons - Elinor OstromDevelopment and capacityEconomic growth and the environment - Gene M. Grossman and Allen B. KruegerCapacity development for the environment: broadening the focus - Ambuj D. Sagar and Stacy D. van DeveerHuman valuesSustainability values, attitudes, and behaviors: a review of multinational and global trends - Anthony A. Leiserowitz, Robert W. Kates, and Thomas M. ParrisThe shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement: a summary - Arne NaessMovements, networks, hierarchies: a gender perspective on global environmental governance - Charlotte BrethertonLarge scale forcesRethinking the ecology-sovereignty debate - Ken ConcaTowards a political economy of global environmental governance - Peter NewellUnderstanding global environmental politics: domination, accumulation, resistance - Matthew PatersonPart 2: International environmental agenda setting and policy formationBackground on global environmental diplomacyThe structuring of a world environmental regime, 1870-1990 - John W. Meyer, David John Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon TumaInternational environmental agreements: a survey of their features, formation, and effects - Ronald B. MitchellAppraising the earth summit - Peter M. Haas, Marc A. Levy, and Edward A. ParsonPerspectives on the Johannesburg Summit - James Gustave SpethDeterminants of success in institutional creation and of institutional designOverview of influences on negotiationsThe formation of international regimes: hypotheses and cases - Gail Osherenko and Oran R. YoungThe interest-based explanation of international environmental policy - Detlef Sprinz and Tapani VaahtorantaTransnational cooperation dilemmas - Scott Barrett Self-interest and environmental management - Kenneth A. Oye and James M. MaxwellSpecific influences: Powerful statesThe USA and global environmental policy: domestic constraints on effective leadership - Glen SussmanBaptists and bootleggers for the environment: the origins of United States unilateral sanctions - Elizabeth DeSombreSpecific influences: Developing statesThe view from the South: developing countries in global environmental politics - Adil NajamSpecific influences: ScientistsInformation and influence - Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, and David W. CashSpecific influences: NGOsNGO influence in international environmental negotiations: a framework for analysis - Michele M. Betsill and Elisabeth CorellSpecific influences: leaders:Political leadership and regime formation: on the development of institutions in international society - Oran R. YoungAlternatives to international agreementsEnvironmental activism and world civic politics - Paul WapnerThe privatization of global environmental governance: ISO 14000 and the developing world - Jennifer Clapp Private governance and the South: lessons from global forest politics - Philipp PattbergPart 3: The effects of international environmental institutionsEffectiveness as a conceptThe effect of international environmental institutions: how we might learn more - Thomas BernauerOne question, two answers - Arild UnderdalFactors that influence institutional effectivenessThe effectiveness of international environmental regimes - Oran R. Young and Marc A. LevyAssessing the record and designing strategies to engage countries - Harold K. Jacobson and Edith Brown WeissDo regimes matter? Epistemic communities and Mediterranean pollution control - Peter M. HaasInstitutional interaction in global environmental governance: the case of the Cartagena Protocol and the World Trade Organization - Sebastian Oberthor and Thomas GehringMethodologyEmpirical research on international environmental policy: designing qualitative case studies - Ronald B. Mitchell and Thomas BernauerThe Oslo-Potsdam solution to measuring regime effectiveness: critique, response, and the road ahead - Jon Hovi, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild UnderdalPart 4: International environmental issues and international environmental debatesIssuesClimate changeFourth Assessment Report Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeGlobalization, vulnerability to climate change, and perceived injustice - Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons RobertsOzone DepletionThe theoretical and practical significance of the ozone regime - Edward A. ParsonDeforestationThe environmental challenge to loggers in the Asia-Pacific: corporate practices in informal regimes of governance - Peter DauvergneBiodiversityDomestic institutions and international regulatory cooperation: comparative responses to the Convention on Biological Diversity - Kal RaustialaHazardous Waste TradeSeeping through the regulatory cracks: the international transfer of toxic waste - Jennifer Clapp FisheriesUnilateralism and multilateralism in international fisheries management - J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombreRhineReducing pollution of the Rhine River: the influence of international cooperation - Thomas Bernauer and Peter MoserEuropean UnionThe European Union as an environmental governance system - Regina S. Axelrod, Norman J. Vig, and Miranda A. SchreursWhalingWhalers, cetologists, environmentalists and the international management of whaling - M. J. PetersonMarine PollutionRegime design matters: intentional oil pollution and treaty compliance - Ronald B. MitchellLRTAPAssessing the effectiveness of international environmental agreements: the case of the 1985 Helsinki Protocol - Evan Ringquist and Tatiana KostadinovaDebatesWorld Environment OrganizationToward a World Environment Organization: reflections upon a vital debate - Steve CharnovitzAddressing the global governance deficit - Peter M. HaasFree Trade and the Environment Bridging the trade-environment divide - Daniel C. EstyBeyond pollution havens - David WheelerEnvironmental SecurityArmed conflict and the environment: a critique of the literature - Nils Petter GleditschThe environment and violent conflict - Daniel M. Schwartz, Tom Deligiannis, and Thomas Homer-DixonSustainable DevelopmentFrom one earth to one world: an overview by the World Commission on Environment and Development - World Commission on Environment and DevelopmentThe chimera of "sustainable development" - Wilfred BeckermanSustainable development and Agenda 21: the secular bible of global free markets and pluralist democracy - Timothy DoyleInternational Financial Institutions and the Environment Delegation to international organizations: agency theory and World Bank environmental reform - Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. TierneyConcluding sectionThe sovereignty of nature? environmental protection in a postmodern age - Paul Wapner′Earth system governance′ as a crosscutting theme of global change research - Frank Biermann