Global Environmental Politics provides a fully up to date and comprehensive introduction to the most important issues dominating this fast moving field. Going beyond the issue of climate change, the textbook also introduces students to the pressing issues of desertification, trade in hazardous waste, biodiversity protection, whaling, acid rain, ozone-depletion, water consumption, and over-fishing. . Importantly, the authors pay particular attention to the interactions between environmental politics and other governance issues, such as gender, trade, development, health, agriculture, and security. Adopting an analytical approach, the authors explore and evaluate a wide variety of political perspectives, testing students' assumptions and equipping them with the necessary tools to develop their own arguments and, ultimately, inspiring students to pursue their own research endeavours in this diverse field.

"Global Environmental Politics is a remarkably sophisticated as well as comprehensive analysis of environmental practices, institutions, and policies." - Robert O. Keohane, Professor (Emeritus) of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA

"The analytic focus and conceptual breadth ensure this text will be useful for a wide range of courses on environmental politics" - Professor Matthew Hoffman, Professor of Politic Science, University of Toronto

"Global Environmental Politics is a must have resource in the classroom." - Liliana Andonova, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland