Global Environmental Politics

2001 - 2025

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Volume 17, issue 4, 2017

Toward Sustainable Peace: A New Research Agenda for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management pp. 1-8

Florian Krampe

Macropolitics of Micronesia: Toward a Critical Theory of Regional Environmental Governance pp. 9-27

Rebecca L. Gruby

Leaders and Laggards: Climate Policy Ambition in Developed States pp. 28-47

Paul Tobin

Business Conflict and Risk Regulation: Understanding the Influence of the Pesticide Industry pp. 48-66

Kees Jansen

The Media and the Major Emitters: Media Coverage of International Climate Change Policy pp. 67-87

Chandra Lal Pandey and Priya A. Kurian

Process Tracing in the Study of Environmental Politics pp. 88-105

Lisa Vanhala

The Power of Social Networks: How the UNFCCC Secretariat Creates Momentum for Climate Education pp. 106-126

Nina Kolleck, Mareike Well, Severin Sperzel and Helge Jörgens

Tracing Failure of Coral Reef Protection in Nonstate Market-Driven Governance pp. 127-146

Michael J. Bloomfield and Philip Schleifer

The Contradictions of the Neoliberal Global Agri-Food System pp. 147-152

Alessandro Bonanno

Consensus and Global Environment Governance: Deliberative Democracy in Nature’s Regime by Walter F. Baber, and Robert V. Bartlett. 2015. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 153-155

Elizabeth Mendenhall

Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico by Prakash Kashwan. 2017. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 155-157

Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya

Giving Aid Effectively: The Politics of Environmental Performance and Selectivity at Multilateral Development Banks by Mark T. Buntaine 2016. New York: Oxford University Press pp. 157-159

Jonathan Rosenberg

Volume 17, issue 3, 2017

A Global Turn to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading? Experiments, Actors, and Diffusion pp. 1-11

Katja Biedenkopf, Patrick Müller, Peter Slominski and Jørgen Wettestad

California’s Cap-and-Trade System: Diffusion and Lessons pp. 12-30

Guri Bang, David G. Victor and Steinar Andresen

Designing New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme pp. 31-50

Tor Håkon, Jackson Inderberg, Ian Bailey and Nichola Harmer

The Politics of Learning: Developing an Emissions Trading Scheme in Australia pp. 51-68

Patrick Müller and Peter Slominski

The New (Fragmented) Geography of Carbon Market Mechanisms: Governance Challenges from Thailand and Vietnam pp. 69-90

Mattijs Smits

Policy Infusion Through Capacity Building and Project Interaction: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading in China pp. 91-114

Katja Biedenkopf, Sarah Van Eynde and Hayley Walker

Emissions Trading and Policy Diffusion: Complex EU ETS Emulation in Kazakhstan pp. 115-133

Lars H. Gulbrandsen, François Sammut and Jørgen Wettestad

Carbon Trading: Who Gets What, When, and How? pp. 134-140

Markus Lederer

Complicating Carbon Markets pp. 141-146

J. Samuel Barkin

Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar pp. 147-149

Merrill Baker-Médard

The Mekong: A Socio-Legal Approach to River Basin Development pp. 149-151

Joshua C. Gellers

Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? pp. 151-152

Jennifer Clapp

Volume 17, issue 2, 2017

Climate Change and the UN Security Council: Bully Pulpit or Bull in a China Shop? pp. 1-20

Ken Conca, Joe Thwaites and Goueun Lee

Transnational Public-Private Partnerships as Learning Facilitators: Global Governance of Mercury pp. 21-44

Yixian Sun

A Polycentric Approach to Global Climate Governance pp. 45-64

Marcel J. Dorsch and Christian Flachsland

Sensing Reality? New Monitoring Technologies for Global Sustainability Standards pp. 65-83

Fred Gale, Francisco Ascui and Heather Lovell

The European Commission’s Shifting Climate Leadership pp. 84-104

Jon Birger Skjærseth

Ratcheting Up Carbon Trade: The Politics of Reforming EU Emissions Trading pp. 105-124

Torbjørg Jevnaker and Jørgen Wettestad

Consensus, Certainty, and Catastrophe: Discourse, Governance, and Ocean Iron Fertilization pp. 125-143

Kemi Fuentes-George

Beyond Biodiversity Conservation: Why Policy Needs Social Theory, Social Theory Needs Justice, and Justice Needs Policy pp. 144-151

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace

Kuch, Declan. 2015. The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 152-154

Lars H. Gulbrandsen

Cramb, Rob A., and John F. McCarthy, eds. 2016. The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia. Singapore: NUS Press pp. 154-156

Philip Schleifer

Death, Carl. 2016. The Green State in Africa. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press pp. 156-158

Larry Swatuk

Volume 17, issue 1, 2017

Valuing the Contributions of Nonstate and Subnational Actors to Climate Governance pp. 1-20

Hamish van der Ven, Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann

Fighting for King Coal’s Crown: Business Actors in the US Coal and Utility Industries pp. 21-39

Christian Downie

Indigenous Belief Systems, Science, and Resource Extraction: Climate Change Attitudes in Ecuador pp. 40-58

Todd A. Eisenstadt and Karleen Jones West

Stakeholder Engagement in the Making: IPBES Legitimization Politics pp. 59-76

Alejandro Esguerra, Silke Beck and Rolf Lidskog

Institutional Mechanisms and the Consequences of International Environmental Agreements pp. 77-98

Yoomi Kim, Katsuya Tanaka and Shunji Matsuoka

Regulatory Institutions and Market-Based Climate Policy in China pp. 99-120

Coraline Goron and Cyril Cassisa

Protecting the Environment of the Final Frontiers: Howkins, Adrian. 2016. The Polar Regions: An Environmental History. Cambridge: Polity Press. Pincus, Rebecca, and Saleem H. Ali, eds. 2015. Diplomacy on Ice: Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and the Antarctic. New Haven: Yale University Press. Stone, David P. 2015. The Changing Arctic Environment: The Arctic Messenger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 121-124

Timo Koivurova

Bennett, Brett. 2015. Plantations and Protected Areas: A Global History of Forest Management. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 125-126

Gabriela Bueno Gibbs

Markham, William T., and Lotsmart Fonjong. 2015. Saving the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Organizational Dynamics and Effectiveness of NGOs in Cameroon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 127-129

Steffi Hamann, Brendan Schwartz and Adam Sneyd

Nicholson, Simon, and Sikina Jinnah, eds. 2016. New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 129-131

Fariborz Zelli

Volume 16, issue 4, 2016

Toward the Green Comfort Zone: Synergy in Environmental Official Development Assistance pp. 1-11

Jeongwon Bourdais Park

Splitting the South: China and India’s Divergence in International Environmental Negotiations pp. 12-31

Leah C. Stokes, Amanda Giang and Noelle E. Selin

Investor-State Arbitration in Domestic Mining Conflicts pp. 32-49

Zoe Phillips Williams

Energy Technology, Politics, and Interpretative Frames: Shale Gas Fracking in Eastern Europe pp. 50-69

Andreas Goldthau and Benjamin K. Sovacool

Leadership and the Energiewende: German Leadership by Diffusion pp. 70-89

Karoline Steinbacher and Michael Pahle

Ecosystem Service Commodification: Lessons from California pp. 90-110

Marissa Bongiovanni Schmitz and Erin Clover Kelly

Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations pp. 111-129

Lisa Vanhala and Cecilie Hestbaek

Book Review Essay: Power and Authority in Global Climate Governance pp. 130-135

Hamish van der Ven

Book Review: Steinberg, Paul. 2015. Who Rules the Earth? How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 136-137

Heike Schroeder

Book Review: Webster, D. G. 2015. Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 138-139

Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir

Book Review: Mirumachi, Naho. 2015. Transboundary Water Politics in the Developing World. Abingdon, UK: Routledge pp. 139-141

Anne J. Kantel

Volume 16, issue 3, 2016

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Behind Closed Doors pp. 1-11

Radoslav S. Dimitrov

“All Hands on Deck”: The Paris Agreement and Nonstate Climate Action pp. 12-22

Thomas Hale

Institutional Control and Climate Change Activism at COP 21 in Paris pp. 23-30

Shannon K. Orr

Teaching and Learning from Environmental Summits: COP 21 and Beyond pp. 31-40

Noelle E. Selin

Diffusion Through Issue Linkage: Environmental Norms in US Trade Agreements pp. 41-61

Sikina Jinnah and Abby Lindsay

Minilateralism or the UNFCCC? The Political Feasibility of Climate Clubs pp. 62-88

Robert Gampfer

Nanotechnology and Global Environmental Politics: Transatlantic Divergence pp. 89-105

Kirsten Rodine-Hardy

Governing Oligopolies: Global Regimes and Market Structure pp. 106-126

Alexander Ovodenko

Unpacking Brazil’s Leadership in the Global Biofuels Arena: Brazilian Ethanol Diplomacy in Africa pp. 127-150

Stavros Afionis, Lindsay C. Stringer, Nicola Favretto, Julia Tomei and Marcos S. Buckeridge

Book Review Essay: The Hydropolitics of the Nile Revisited: Elites, Experts, and Everyday Practices in Egypt and Sudan pp. 151-156

Dustin Evan Garrick

Book Review: Conca, Ken. 2015. An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance. New York: Oxford University Press pp. 157-159

Maria Ivanova

Book Review: Lo, Alex. 2016. Carbon Trading in China: Environmental Discourse and Politics. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 159-161

Yixian Sun

Book Review: Edwards, Guy, and J. Timmons Roberts. 2015. A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 161-163

Matías Franchini

Volume 16, issue 2, 2016

Accountability in Global Environmental Governance: A Meaningful Tool for Action? pp. 1-21

Teresa Kramarz and Susan Park

The Analytic Utility (and Practical Pitfalls) of Accountability pp. 22-32

Matthew Hoffman

Accountability of Environmental Impact Bonds: The Future of Global Environmental Governance? pp. 33-41

Cristina M. Balboa

Contested Accountability Logics in Evolving Nonstate Certification for Fisheries Sustainability pp. 42-60

Lars H. Gulbrandsen and Graeme Auld

Accountability and Representation: Nonstate Actors in UN Climate Diplomacy pp. 61-81

Jonathan W. Kuyper and Karin Bäckstrand

The Politics of Accountability in Networked Urban Climate Governance pp. 82-100

David J. Gordon

Governing the Depths: Conceptualizing the Politics of Deep Sea Resources pp. 101-109

Scott Moore and Dale Squires

Africa’s Regional Powers and Climate Change Negotiations pp. 110-129

Michael Byron Nelson

Book Review Essay: The Political Economy of Sustainable Energy Transitions pp. 130-135

Espen Moe

Book Review: Hadden, Jennifer. 2015. Networks in Contention: The Divisive Power of Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press pp. 136-138

Craig M. Kauffman

Book Review: Goldin, Ian, ed. 2014. Is the Planet Full? Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 138-139

Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba

Book Review: Jörgens, Helge, Andrea Lenschow, and Duncan Liefferink, eds. 2014. Understanding Environmental Policy Convergence: The Power of Words, Rules and Money. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 140-142

Yuliya Rashhchupkina

Volume 16, issue 1, 2016

Researching Global Environmental Politics in the 21st Century pp. 1-12

Peter Dauvergne and Jennifer Clapp

Questioning the Diffusion of Resilience Discourses in Pursuit of Transformational Change pp. 13-20

Ross Gillard

Death and Environmental Taxes: Why Market Environmentalism Fails in Liberal Market Economies pp. 21-37

Robert MacNeil

Private Governance Undermined: India and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil pp. 38-58

Philip Schleifer

Global, National, or Market? Emerging REDD+ Governance Practices in Mozambique and Tanzania pp. 59-78

Eero Palmujoki and Pekka Virtanen

Explaining Transatlantic Policy Divergence: The Role of Domestic Politics and Policy Styles in Nanotechnology Risk Regulation pp. 79-98

Ronit Justo-Hanani and Tamar Dayan

Water in International Affairs: Heightened Attention to Equity and Rights pp. 99-105

Andrea K. Gerlak

Book Review: Auld, Graeme. 2014. Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press pp. 106-108

Andrea M. Collins

Book Review: Duit, Andreas, ed. 2014. State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 108-109

Javiera Barandiaran

Book Review: Ansolabehere, Stephen, and David M. Konisky. 2014. Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 110-111

David Vogel