Global Environmental Politics

2001 - 2025

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Volume 15, issue 4, 2015

Sustainable Global Governance? Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Institutions pp. 1-20

Mihaela Papa

Interrogating Urban Climate Leadership: Toward a Political Ecology of the C40 Network pp. 21-38

Kathryn Davidson and Brendan Gleeson

Sharing the Global Climate Finance Effort Fairly with Limited Coordination pp. 39-62

Jonathan Pickering, Frank Jotzo and Peter J. Wood

Deadlock or Transformational Change? Exploring Public Discourse on REDD+ Across Seven Countries pp. 63-84

Monica Di Gregorio, Maria Brockhaus, Tim Cronin, Efrian Muharrom, Sofi Mardiah and Levania Santoso

Bourdieu and the IPCC’s Symbolic Power pp. 85-104

Hannah Hughes

Free Trade and/or Environmental Protection? pp. 105-129

Thomas Bernauer and Quynh Nguyen

Book Review Essay: Change in Global Environmental Governance pp. 130-135

J. Samuel Barkin

Book Review: Bulkeley, Harriet, Liliana B. Andonova, Michele M. Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew J. Hoffmann, Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson, Charles Roger, and Stacy VanDeveer. 2014. Transnational Climate Change Governance. New York: Cambridge University Press pp. 136-138

Abby Lindsay

Book Review: Litfin, Karen. 2013. Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community. Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 138-140

Michael Maniates

Book Review: Ridgeway, Sharon J., and Peter J. Jacques. 2014. The Power of the Talking Stick: Indigenous Politics and the World Ecological Crisis. Boulder, CO: Paradigm pp. 140-141

Blane Harvey

Volume 15, issue 3, 2015

Advancing Comparative Climate Change Politics: Theory and Method pp. 1-26

Mark Purdon

International Carbon Trade and Domestic Climate Politics pp. 27-48

Kathryn Harrison

Comparative Politics of Sub-Federal Cap-and-Trade: Implementing the Western Climate Initiative pp. 49-73

David Houle, Erick Lachapelle and Mark Purdon

Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and China: Interests, State–Business Relations, and Policy Outcomes pp. 74-94

Kathryn Hochstetler and Genia Kostka

Forest Policy, Institutions, and REDD+ in India, Tanzania, and Mexico pp. 95-117

Prakash Kashwan

Subnational Adaptation Finance Allocation: Comparing Decentralized and Devolved Political Institutions in Kenya pp. 118-139

Sam Barrett

An Ontological Politics of Comparative Environmental Analysis: The Green Economy and Local Diversity pp. 140-151

Tim Forsyth and Les Levidow

Can We Generalize from Case Studies? pp. 152-175

Paul F. Steinberg

Book Review Essay: Limits of Transnational Environmental Network Governance in North America pp. 176-183

Owen Temby

Book Review: Stevenson, Hayley, and John S. Dryzek. 2014. Democratizing Global Climate Governance. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press pp. 184-186

Aysem Mert

Book Review: Md Saidul Islam. 2014. Confronting the Blue Revolution: Industrial Aquaculture and Sustainability in the Global South. Toronto: University of Toronto Press pp. 186-187

Rachel G. Tiller

Book Review: Oberthür, Sebastian, and G. Kristin Rosendal, eds. 2014. Global Governance of Genetic Resources: Access and Benefit Sharing after the Nagoya Protocol. New York and London: Routledge pp. 187-190

Marc Williams

Volume 15, issue 2, 2015

Building Productive Links between the UNFCCC and the Broader Global Climate Governance Landscape pp. 1-10

Michelle Betsill, Navroz K. Dubash, Matthew Paterson, Harro van Asselt, Antto Vihma and Harald Winkler

Counter-Summitry: La Via Campesina, the People's Summit, and Rio+20 pp. 11-18

David Meek

Oppose, Support, or Hedge? Distributional Effects, Regulatory Pressure, and Business Strategy in Environmental Politics pp. 19-37

Jonas Meckling

Fair and Equitable Negotiations? African Influence and the International Access and Benefit-Sharing Regime pp. 38-56

Brendan Coolsaet and John Pitseys

From ‘Go Slow’ to ‘Gung Ho’? Climate Engineering Discourses in the UK, the US, and Germany pp. 57-78

Sebastian Harnisch, Stephanie Uther and Miranda Boettcher

Money or Mandate? Why International Organizations Engage with the Climate Change Regime pp. 79-97

Nina Hall

Marketing Renewable Energy through Geopolitics: Solar Farms in Israel pp. 98-120

Itay Fischhendler, Daniel Nathan and Dror Boymel

An Uneasy Equilibrium: The Coordination of Climate Governance in Federated Systems pp. 121-141

David J. Gordon

Book Review Essay: Security or Sovereignty? Institutional and Critical Approaches to the Global Food Crisis pp. 142-147

Anya M. Galli

Book Review: Dauvergne, Peter, and Jane Lister. 2013. Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press pp. 148-150

Stephen E. Van Holde

Book Review: Gallagher, Kelly Sims. 2014. The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press pp. 150-151

Erika Weinthal

Book Review: Doherty, Brian, and Timothy Doyle. 2014. Environmentalism, Resistance, and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International. New York: Palgrave MacMillan pp. 152-154

Sarah S. Stroup

Volume 15, issue 1, 2015

When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies pp. 1-20

Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist

The Contentious Political Economy of Biofuels pp. 21-40

Kate J. Neville

Negotiating Authority in Global Biofuel Governance: Brazil and the EU in the WTO pp. 41-59

Sarah L. Stattman and Aarti Gupta

Power and Carbon Sovereignty in a Non-Traditional Capitalist State: Discourses of Carbon Trading in China pp. 60-82

Alex Lo and Michael Howes

Transnational Advocacy over Time: Business and NGO Mobilization at UN Climate Summits pp. 83-104

Marcel Hanegraaff

Bilateral Climate Cooperation: The EU’s Relations with China and India pp. 105-122

Diarmuid Torney

Book Review Essay: Energy Justice, Climate Change, and the Challenge of Global Energy Governance pp. 123-128

Juliann Emmons Allison

Book Review: Christoff, Peter, and Robyn Eckersley. 2013. Globalization and the Environment. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers pp. 129-131

Jennifer Lawrence

Book Review: Zink, Eren. 2013. Hot Science, High Water: Assembling Nature, Society and Environmental Policy in Contemporary Vietnam. Copenhagen: NIAS Press pp. 131-133

Jennifer Wallace

Book Review: Bridger, Rose. 2013. Plane Truth: Aviation’s Real Impact on People and the Environment. London: Pluto Press pp. 133-134

Alden Griffith

Volume 14, issue 4, 2014

Transparency in the Extractive Industries: Time to Ask for More pp. 1-9

Raimund Bleischwitz

The Rise of Renewable Energy Protectionism: Emerging Trade Conflicts and Implications for Low Carbon Development pp. 10-35

Joanna I. Lewis

The Changing Nature of Nature: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene pp. 36-54

Paul Wapner

The World Bank and Negotiating the Red Sea and Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project pp. 55-74

Neda Zawahri and Erika Weinthal

Contesting Climate Injustice: Transnational Advocacy Network Struggles for Rights in UN Climate Politics pp. 75-96

David Ciplet

Blame Games in the Amazon: Environmental Crises and the Emergence of a Transparency Regime in Brazil pp. 97-115

Raoni Rajao and Yola Georgiadou

Basins at Risk: Predicting International River Basin Conflict and Cooperation pp. 116-138

Thomas Bernauer and Tobias Bohmelt

Book Review Essay: State and Society in China’s Environmental Politics pp. 139-144

Matthew Gaudreau

Book Review: SStern, Rachel E. 2013. Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 145-147

Phillip Stalley

Book Review: Gareau, Brian J. 2013. From Precaution to Profit: Contemporary Challenges to Environmental Protection in the Montreal Protocol. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press pp. 147-150

David L. Downie

Book Review: Green, Jessica F. 2014. Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton: Princeton University Press pp. 150-152

Lars H. Gulbrandsen

Volume 14, issue 3, 2014

Introduction: Studying Global Environmental Meetings to Understand Global Environmental Governance: Collaborative Event Ethnography at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity pp. 1-20

Lisa M. Campbell, Catherine Corson, Noella J. Gray, Kenneth I. MacDonald and Peter Brosius

Capturing the Personal in Politics: Ethnographies of Global Environmental Governance pp. 21-40

Catherine Corson, Lisa M. Campbell and Kenneth Iain MacDonald

Producing Targets for Conservation: Science and Politics at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity pp. 41-63

Lisa M. Campbell, Shannon Hagerman and Noella J. Gray

Boundary Objects and Global Consensus: Scalar Narratives of Marine Conservation in the Convention on Biological Diversity pp. 64-83

Noella J. Gray, Rebecca L. Gruby and Lisa M. Campbell

Fuel for the Fire: Biofuels and the Problem of Translation at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity pp. 84-101

Deborah Scott, Sarah Hitchner, Edward M. Maclin and Juan Luis Dammert B.

Negotiating the Nagoya Protocol: Indigenous Demands for Justice pp. 102-124

Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya

Forum: What Does Collaborative Event Ethnography Tell Us About Global Environmental Governance? pp. 125-131

Rosaleen Duffy

Forum: Collaborative Event Ethnography: Between Structural Power and Empirical Nuance? pp. 132-138

Bram Büscher

Book Review Essay: Public–Private Partnering in Natural Resource Extraction pp. 139-145

Michael Stevenson

Book Review: Bown, Natalie, Tim Gray, and Selina M. Stead. 2013. Contested Forms of Governance in Marine Protected Areas: A Study of Co-Management and Adaptive Co-Management pp. 146-147

Betul Gokkir

Book Review: Harris, Paul G. 2013. What's Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It pp. 148-149

Theresa Jedd

Book Review: Widener, Patricia. 2011. Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador pp. 150-151

Alex Latta

Volume 14, issue 2, 2014

Climate Suffering pp. 1-6

Paul Wapner

Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism: The Role of Inter-Movement Spillover pp. 7-25

Jennifer Hadden

Local–Global Linkages in Environmental Governance: The Case of Crop Genetic Resources pp. 26-44

Zuhre Aksoy

On the Design of an International Governance Framework for Geoengineering pp. 45-63

Ian D. Lloyd and Michael Oppenheimer

Rescuing EU Emissions Trading: Mission Impossible? pp. 64-81

Jørgen Wettestad

Security in Climate Change Discourse: Analyzing the Divergence between US and EU Approaches to Policy pp. 82-101

Jarrod Hayes and Janelle Knox-Hayes

Frames of Climate Change in Side Events from Kyoto to Durban pp. 102-121

Mattias Hjerpe and Katarina Buhr

Review Essay: Localized Responses to Unsustainable Growth pp. 122-128

Hélène Ducros

Book Review: arkin, Samuel J., and Elizabeth R. DeSombre. 2013. Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 129-130

Rachel G. Tiller

Book Review: Stokke, Olav Schram. 2012. Disaggregating International Regimes: A New Approach to Evaluation and Comparison. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press pp. 131-132

James Hollway

Book Review: Mazzolini, Elizabeth, and Stephanie Foote, Editors. 2012. Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press pp. 132-134

Bryan McDonald

Volume 14, issue 1, 2014

Global Environmental Law and Treaty-Making on Hazardous Substances: The Minamata Convention and Mercury Abatement pp. 1-19

Henrik Selin

Transparency in Resource Governance: The Pitfalls and Potential of “New Oil” in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 20-39

James Van Alstine

Scaling up Buen Vivir: Globalizing Local Environmental Governance from Ecuador pp. 40-58

Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin

Counting Carbon: The Politics of Carbon Footprints and Climate Governance from the Individual to the Global pp. 59-78

James Morton Turner

Cross-National Public Opinion on Climate Change: The Effects of Affluence and Vulnerability pp. 79-106

So Young Kim and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias

Governance by Diffusion: Transnational Municipal Networks and the Spread of Local Climate Strategies in Europe pp. 107-129

Lukas Hakelberg

Review Essay: Climate Capitalism and its Discontents pp. 130-135

Rebecca Pearse

Book Review: Tun Myint. 2012. Governing International Rivers: Polycentric Politics in the Mekong and the Rhine. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar pp. 136-138

Jennifer L. Wallace

Book Review: Daanish Mustafa. 2013. Water Resource Management in a Vulnerable World: The Hydro-Harzardscapes of Climate Change. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd pp. 138-139

Dallas Blaney

Book Review: Vogel, David. 2012. The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press pp. 140-142

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