Understanding Global Environmental Politics

MATTHEW PATERSON is Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. He has published widely on the politics of climate change, notably Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), and on the global politics of environmental change more generally.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Understanding Global Environmental Politics Realism, Liberalism and the Origins of Global Environmental Change The 'Normal and Mundane Practices of Modernity': Global Power Structures and the Environment Space, Domination, Development: Sea Defences and the Structuring of Environmental Decision Making Car Trouble Fast Food, Consumer Cultures and Ecology Conclusion: Globalization, Governance and Resistance Bibliography Index

'...an innovative and thoughtful approach to global environmental politics...a point of departure for future critical scholarship.' - Marc Williams, International Affairs '...a fine and lucidly written example of the necessary interdisciplinarity with which the environmental problematic needs to be subjected...will become a standard reference at least in International Relations...This is a good book. It is a book that will be of value across the disciplines. It is also a book that has value across the levels of engagement from undergraduate specialist text to postgraduate course book, from general interest readership to international theory specialists.' - Julian Saurin, University of Sussex