Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

<p>This handbook brings together leading international academic experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of global environmental politics.</p><p>Fully revised updated and expanded to 45 chapters the book: </p><ul> <li>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</li> <li>Examines the key actors and institutions in global environmental politics explaining the roles of states international organizations regimes international law foreign policy institutions domestic politics corporations and transnational actors</li> <li>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 public participation and citizenship</li> <li>Assesses the key issues and policies within global environmental politics including energy climate change ozone depletion air pollution acid rain transport persistent organic pollutants hazardous wastes rivers wetlands oceans fisheries marine mammals biodiversity migratory species natural heritage forests desertification food and agriculture</li> </ul><p>This second edition includes new chapters on plastics climate change energy earth system governance and the Anthropocene. It is an invaluable resource for students scholars researchers and practitioners of environmental politics environmental studies environmental science geography globalization international relations and political science.</p><p>Chapter 19 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com</p>