| Summary: | "This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Global Environmental Politics. Featuring 45 up-to-date chapters, the book: Describes the history of global environmental politics as a discipline and explains the various theories and perspectives used by scholars and students to understand it. Examines the key actors and institutions in global environmental politics, explaining the role of states, international organizations, regimes, international law, foreign policy institutions, domestic politics, corporations and transnational actors. Addresses the ideas and themes shaping the practice and study of global environmental politics, including sustainability, consumption, expertise, uncertainty, security, diplomacy, North-South relations, globalization, justice, ethics, participation and citizenship. Assesses the key issues and policies within global environmental politics, including energy, climate change, ozone depletion, air pollution, acid rain, sustainable transport, persistent organic pollutants, hazardous wastes, rivers, wetlands, oceans, fisheries, marine mammals, biodiversity, migratory species, natural heritage, forests, desertification, food and agriculture. With an in-depth introduction by the editor, this new edition has been fully updated and includes new chapters on plastics, controversies in global environmental politics, the Anthropocene, climate change, energy, and earth system governance. It will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, researchers and practitioners of environmental politics, environmental studies, environmental science, geography, international relations and political science"--
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