The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory

Teena Gabrielson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming. Her work on environmental citizenship, justice, and toxics discourse has been published in distinguished scholarly journals such as Environmental Politics, Theory & Event, and Citizenship Studies.Cheryl Hall is Associate Professor of political theory in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of Reason and other work exploring the roles that emotions, values, imagination, deliberation, stories, and structures play in encouraging or discouraging more just and sustainable ways of life.John M. Meyer is Professor in the Department of Politics, in Environmental Studies, and in the Environment and Community program at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He is the author of Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015), as well as other books and articles in environmental political theory.David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, and the Director of the Sydney Environment Institute, at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Defining Environmental Justice, co-author of Sustainable Materialism and Climate Challenged Society, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, all with Oxford University Press.

• I. INTRODUCTION ; II. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY AS A FIELD OF INQUIRY ; A. ENGAGING TRADITIONS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT ; B. ENGAGING THE ACADEMY ; III. RETHINKING NATURE AND POLITICAL SUBJECTS ; A. NATURE, ENVIRONMENT, AND THE POLITICAL ; B. ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNITY, AND BOUNDARIES ; IV. ENDS, GOALS, IDEALS ; A. SUSTAINABILITY ; B. JUSTICE, RIGHTS, AND RESPONSIBILITY ; C. FREEDOM, AGENCY, AND FLOURISHING ; V. POWER, STRUCTURES, AND CHANGE ; A. IDENTIFYING STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS AND POSSIBILITIES ; B. THEORIZING CITIZENSHIP, MOVEMENTS, AND ACTION

For anyone seriously concerned with environmental issues and understanding the associated politics, this is a book they should have on their shelves. It can be consulted on a wide range of topics, and represents a true state-of-theart guide. It is difficult to select specific contributions to highlight, but having been engaged with research that addressed notions of environmental justice, I was drawn to the four chapters that explicitly tackled this topic. These provide an historical overview of the concept's evolution, and they also demonstrate vital insights to the challenges being posed by the need to seek 'climate justice', or the efforts to minimise harm associated with climate change and the 'structural injustice' of its harmful impacts, symbolising how the least developed countries may suffer the worst impacts of climate change despite contributing little to the problem.The Handbook is thoroughly worthy of the label 'treasure trove'.