The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy

The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption. 

Table of Contents:
Preface Selected Acronyms in Global Environmental Policy Global Environmental Policy: A Brief Chronology Contributors CHAPTER 1 • Governing the Global Environment PART I • INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS CHAPTER 2 • Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs: International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics CHAPTER 3 • International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment CHAPTER 4 • International Environmental Regimes and the Success of Global Ozone Policy CHAPTER 5 • Compliance with Global Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases PART II • BIG PLAYERS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKING CHAPTER 6 • Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism CHAPTER 7 • Promoting Environmental Protection in the European Union CHAPTER 8 • How China’s Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement CHAPTER 9 • The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics PART III • CASES, CONTROVERSIES, AND CHALLENGES CHAPTER 10 • International Climate Change Policy: Complex Multilevel Governance CHAPTER 11 • Global Politics and Policy on Hazardous Substances CHAPTER 12 • Global Biodiversity Governance: Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems CHAPTER 13 • Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance: From the Czech Republic to Fukushima CHAPTER 14 • Free Trade and Environmental Protection CHAPTER 15 • Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments Index

About the Author :
Regina S. Axelrod is professor of political science and chair of the political science department at Adelphi University. She has published numerous articles and books on environmental and energy policy in the United Sates, the European Union, and Central Europe, including Environment, Energy, Public Policy: Toward a Rational Future and Conflict between Energy and Urban Environment. She has lectured at Charles University, Prague, and the University of Budapest on nuclear power and the transition to democracy. She is an academic associate of the Atlantic Council and past president of the New York Political Science Association. In 2007, she received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to lecture in the Czech Republic. She also received grants from the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, the Soros Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Stacy D. VanDeveer is professor of political science and chair of the department at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include global and regional environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, comparative environmental politics, the connections between environmental and security issues, the roles of expertise in policymaking and the geopolitics of resource consumption. In addition to authoring and coauthoring over 75 articles, book chapters, working papers, and reports, he is the coeditor of Saving the Seas (1997), EU Enlargement and the Environment (2005), Changing Climates in North American Politics (2009), Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics (2009), and Comparative Environmental Politics (2012), and co-author of forthcoming books on the European Union and the Environment and on Transnational Climate Change Governance.

Review :
"This is a comprehensive and very accessible, introductory textbook to Global Environmental Politics. It excels in that it nicely integrates Global Environmental Politics into broader International Relations arguments, while discussing the role of intergovernmental organizations and international cooperation for finding effective solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems of our time." "The Global Environment is a strong and authoritative introductory text. The content is of the highest quality, written by an array of notable experts. The editors have done a fantastic job at arranging that multidisciplinary—and potentially unwieldy--content into a coherent framework. Readers will appreciate the clear prose." "I very much appreciate the comparative case study between Montreal and climate change.  The regime theory approach is also very useful, especially for my non-IR majors."