Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of global environmental politics, covering key actors, institutions, theories, and issues, with a new chapter on plastics, climate change, energy, and earth system governance. It is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners.

Format: Hardback
Length: 628 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive handbook brings together a distinguished panel of international academic experts to offer a thorough and authoritative exploration of global environmental politics. Thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded to encompass 45 chapters, the book delves into the historical development of this discipline, shedding light on the diverse theories and perspectives employed by scholars and students to understand its complexities. It examines the pivotal roles played by states, international organizations, regimes, international law, foreign policy institutions, domestic politics, corporations, and transnational actors in shaping global environmental politics. Moreover, it addresses the core ideas and themes that shape the practice and study of this field, including sustainability, consumption, expertise, uncertainty, security, diplomacy, North-South relations, globalization, justice, ethics, public participation, and citizenship.

In order to assess the critical issues and policies within global environmental politics, the book comprehensively examines a range of topics, including energy, climate change, ozone depletion, air pollution, acid rain, transportation, persistent organic pollutants, hazardous wastes, rivers, wetlands, oceans, fisheries, marine mammals, biodiversity, migratory species, natural heritage, forests, desertification, food and agriculture. Furthermore, this second edition includes new chapters on plastics, climate change, energy, earth system governance, and the Anthropocene, ensuring that it remains a valuable resource for students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of environmental politics, environmental studies, environmental science, geography, globalization, international relations, and political science.

Chapter 19 of this handbook is made freely accessible as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This license allows for non-commercial use, reproduction, and distribution of the chapter, provided that proper attribution is given to the authors and the source is cited.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032145808
Edition number: 2 ed