This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Global Environmental Politics. It brings together leading international academic experts and features 40 chapters that:

• Describe the history of global environmental politics as a discipline and explain the various theories and perspectives used by scholars and students to understand it.
• Examine 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.
• Address the ideas and themes shaping the practice and study of global environmental politics, including sustainability, consumption, expertise, uncertainty, security, diplomacy, North-South relations, globalisation, justice, ethics, participation and citizenship.
• Assess 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, water, rivers, wetlands, oceans, fisheries, marine mammals, biodiversity, migratory species, natural heritage, forests, desertification, food and agriculture.

With an in-depth new preface by the Editor, this edition of the handbook is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, researchers and practitioners of environmental politics, environmental studies, environmental science, geography, international relations and political science.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Global Environmental Politics. It brings together leading international academic experts and features 40 chapters that:

• Provide a history of the discipline and explains the different applicable theories and perspectives.
• Examine the key actors and institutions; explaining the role of states, international organizations, foreign policy, international law, businesses and transnational actors.
• Address the forces impacting and shaping the discipline including science, security, technology, risk, globalisation, lifestyle, North-South relations, justice, democracy and ethics.
• Assess the key issues and policies within global environmental politics including pollution, the ozone, energy, hazardous waste, the oceans and fisheries, agriculture, desertification and deforestation.

This book is an invaluable resource to students, scholars, researchers and practioners of environmental politics, environmental studies, environmental science and geography.

"It is impossible to overpraise a volume that is comprehensive, forthright, mostly well-written, and practices what it preaches, including offering suggestions about how to teach global environmental politics and why it is necessary to conduct transdisciplinary research that engages environmental issues and values from multiple perspectives. ? Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels." - M. Tetreault, Trinity University, in CHOICE, July 2014