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.

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PART 1: DEFINING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
1: Interconnections between science and politics
2: Ideas about environmental protection
PART 2: ACTORS AND INTERESTS
3: States
4: Non-state actors
PART 3: BARGAINING OVER THE ENVIRONMENT
5: The tragedy of the commons and sovereign rights
6: Development and the environment: From the Stockholm Summit to the Sustainable Development Goals
PART 4: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES
7: International institutions
8: Policy instruments and effectiveness
PART 5: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
9: Natural resources, security, and conflicts
10: Trade and the environment

Jean-Frédéric Morin, Full Professor, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Amandine Orsini, Professor, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles

Sikina Jinnah, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, US

Jean-Frédéric Morin is Full Professor at Université Laval (Canada) and chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy. His recent projects look at the design of environmental treaties and at the interactions between international institutions. His research has appeared in journals like Global Environmental Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Environmental Politics and European Journal of International Relations.

Amandine Orsini is Professor at Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles (Belgium). She is particularly interested in the role of non-state actors in international negotiations regarding biodiversity, forests and genetic resources. She is currently working on two edited volumes: Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance (Routledge, 2nd edition forthcoming) with Jean-Frédéric Morin, and Environmental Policy in the EU: Current and Future Challenges (Routledge, forthcoming) with Elena Kavvatha.

Sikina Jinnah is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz (United States). Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power, linkage politics, and regime design, in particular in the areas of climate change, climate engineering, biodiversity, and trade-environment politics. She is the author or editor of three other books, including, Post-treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in In Global Environmental Politics, which won the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, and Greening through Trade: How American Trade Policy is Linked to Environmental Protection Abroad (with Jean-Frédéric Morin).