Global Environmental Politics

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Volume 13, issue 4, 2013

The Contested Legacy of Rio+20 pp. 1-11

Maria Ivanova

Rio+20: Sustainable Development in a Time of Multilateral Decline pp. 12-21

Steven Bernstein

Three Ways to Understand State Actors in International Negotiations: Climate Change in the Clinton Years (1993–2000) pp. 22-40

Christian Downie

No Talk, Some Walk: Obama Administration First-Term Rhetoric on Climate Change and US International Climate Budget Commitments pp. 41-60

Graciela Kincaid and J. Timmons Roberts

Explaining Growing Climate Policy Differences Between the European Union and the United States pp. 61-80

Jon Birger Skjærseth, Guri Bang and Miranda A. Schreurs

Wild Spaces or Polluted Places: Contentious Policies, Consensus Institutions, and Environmental Performance in Industrialized Democracies pp. 81-100

Joshua Ozymy and Denis Rey

Framing “The Climate Issue”: Patterns of Participation and Prognostic Frames among Climate Summit Protesters pp. 101-122

Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag and Christopher Rootes

Governing Ecosystem Carbon pp. 123-143

Henry Boer

Neoliberalism, Environmental Justice, and the Convention on Biological Diversity: How Problematizing the Commodification of Nature Affects Regime Effectiveness pp. 144-163

Kemi Fuentes-George

Book Review: Boyd, Emily, and Carl Folke, eds. 2011. Adapting Institutions: Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press pp. 164-165

Raul Pacheco-Vega

Book Review: Bell, Ruth Greenspan, Micah S. Ziegler, Barry Blechman, Brian Finlay, and Thomas Cottier. 2012. Building International Climate Cooperation: Lessons for the Weapons and Trade Regimes for Achieving International Climate Goals. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute pp. 166-167

Saskia van Wees

Book Review: Bryner, Gary, with Robert J. Duffy. 2012. Integrating Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution Policies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 168-169

Owen Temby

Volume 13, issue 3, 2013

Introduction: The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences, and Responses pp. 1-13

Fariborz Zelli and Harro van Asselt

Fragmentation in Global Energy Governance: Explaining the Creation of IRENA pp. 14-33

Thijs Van de Graaf

Multi-Forum Non-State Actors: Navigating the Regime Complexes for Forestry and Genetic Resources pp. 34-55

Amandine Orsini

Legitimacy in an Era of Fragmentation: The Case of Global Climate Governance pp. 56-78

Sylvia I. Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen and Jeffrey McGee

Fragmented International Governance of Arctic Offshore Oil: Governance Challenges and Institutional Improvement pp. 79-99

Christoph Humrich

Managing Institutional Complexity and Fragmentation: The Nagoya Protocol and the Global Governance of Genetic Resources pp. 100-118

Sebastian Oberthür and Justyna Pożarowska

Commentary: On Fragmentation, Differentiation, and Coordination pp. 119-130

Michael Zürn and Benjamin Faude

Complex Landscapes and Oil Curse Research pp. 131-137

Ken Conca

Assessing Carbon Policy Experiments pp. 138-143

Anita Engels

Book Review: Steinberg, Paul F., and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. 2012. Comparative Environmental Politics: Theory, Practice, and Prospects. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press pp. 144-146

Robert V. Bartlett

Book Review: Pamela S. Chasek and Lynn M. Wagner, eds. 2012. The Roads from Rio: Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations. New York and London: Routledge pp. 146-148

Mark Axelrod

Book Review: Preston, Christopher, ed. 2012. Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management. Plymouth: Lexington Books pp. 148-150

Jonathan Symons

Volume 13, issue 2, 2013

Order out of Chaos: Public and Private Rules for Managing Carbon pp. 1-25

Jessica F. Green

Promoting International Environmental Cooperation Through Unilateral Action: When Can Trade Sanctions Help? pp. 26-45

Johannes Urpelainen

The Policy Context of Biofuels: A Case of Non-Governance at the Global Level? pp. 46-64

Mairon G. Bastos Lima and Joyeeta Gupta

When Do Environmentally Focused Assistance Projects Achieve their Objectives? Evidence from World Bank Post-Project Evaluations pp. 65-88

Mark T. Buntaine and Bradley C. Parks

Government, Anti-Reflexivity, and the Construction of Public Ignorance about Climate Change: Australia and Canada Compared pp. 89-108

Nathan Young and Aline Coutinho

Transmitting Environmentalism? The Unintended Global Consequences of European Union Environmental Policies pp. 109-127

Carolyn M. Dudek

Understanding India's Representation of North–South Climate Politics pp. 128-147

Shangrila Joshi

Security Domains in Conflict? pp. 148-153

Gregory White

Science and Society: The Structures of Scientific Advice pp. 154-159

Stephen Bocking

Book Review: Oberthür, Sebastian, and Olav Schram Stokke, eds. 2011. Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press pp. 160-162

Ton Bührs

Book Review: Everard, Mark. 2011. Common Ground: The Sharing of Land and Landscapes for Sustainability. London: Zed Books pp. 162-163

Avery S. Cohn

Book Review: Chellaney, Brahma. 2011. Water: Asia's New Battleground. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press pp. 164-165

Kendra Patterson

Volume 13, issue 1, 2013

Forum: Principled Strategy: The Role of Equity Norms in China's Climate Change Diplomacy pp. 1-8

Phillip Stalley

Norm Conflict in Climate Governance: Greenhouse Gas Accounting and the Problem of Consumption pp. 9-29

Paul G. Harris and Jonathan Symons

South-South Trade and the Environment: A Brazilian Case Study pp. 30-48

Kathryn Hochstetler

The Politics of International Climate Adaptation Funding: Justice and Divisions in the Greenhouse pp. 49-68

David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan

The External Dimension of European Union Marine Governance: Institutional Interplay between the EU and the International Maritime Organization pp. 69-87

Judith van Leeuwen and Kristine Kern

Is There a Democracy–Civil Society Paradox in Global Environmental Governance? pp. 88-107

Thomas Bernauer, Tobias Böhmelt and Vally Koubi

Global Cities and Transnational Climate Change Networks pp. 108-127

Taedong Lee

Human Migration in a Changing Climate pp. 128-132

Clark Gray

Book Review: Aubertin, Catherine, and Estienne Rodary, eds. 2011. Protected Areas, Sustainable Land?. Surrey, England: Ashgate Press pp. 133-134

Pamela L. Martin

Book Review: Baldacchino, Godfrey, ed. 2012. Extreme Heritage Management: The Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books pp. 135-136

Hélène Ducros

Book Review: Lovell, Bryan. 2010. Challenged by Carbon: The Oil Industry and Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 137-139

Simone Pulver

Volume 12, issue 4, 2012

Learning about Climate Change: Finance Ministries in International Climate Change Politics pp. 1-8

Jakob Skovgaard

Resisting Transparency: Corruption, Legitimacy, and the Quality of Global Environmental Policies pp. 9-29

Monika Bauhr and Naghmeh Nasiritousi

Negotiating Adaptation: Norm Selection and Hybridization in International Climate Negotiations pp. 30-48

Frances C. Moore

The Global Political Ecology of the Clean Development Mechanism pp. 49-67

Peter Newell and Adam Bumpus

Global Warming, Irreversibility, and Uncertainty: A Political Analysis pp. 68-85

Johannes Urpelainen

Water Wars by Other Means: Virtual Water and Global Economic Restructuring pp. 86-103

Andrew Biro

Revisiting the Transatlantic Divergence over GMOs: Toward a Cultural-Political Analysis pp. 104-124

Hannes R. Stephan

Seed Governance at the Intersection of Multiple Global and Nation-State Priorities: Modernizing Seeds in Turkey pp. 125-146

Nurcan Atalan-Helicke and Becky Mansfield

Exploring the Political Economy of Resource Systems through Coltan, Fish, Food, and Timber pp. 147-152

Elizabeth Havice

Book Review: Peters, Michael, Shane Fudge, and Tim Jackson, eds. 2010. Low Carbon Communities: Imaginative Approaches to Combating Climate Change Locally. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar pp. 153-155

Nancy Quirk

Book Review: Mathews, Andrew S. 2011. Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests. Cambridge: The MIT Press pp. 155-156

Janette Bulkan

Book Review: Martin, Pamela L. 2011. Oil in the Soil: The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc pp. 157-158

Patricia Widener

Volume 12, issue 3, 2012

Navigating Regional Environmental Governance pp. 1-17

Jörg Balsiger and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Global Environmental Governance and Regional Centers pp. 18-37

Henrik Selin

ASEAN and Environmental Governance: Strategies of Regionalism in Southeast Asia pp. 38-57

Lorraine Elliott

New Environmental Regionalism and Sustainable Development in the European Alps pp. 58-78

Jörg Balsiger

Democratizing Regional Environmental Governance: Public Deliberation and Participation in Transboundary Ecoregions pp. 79-99

Andreas Klinke

Environmental Change, Human Security, and Regional Governance: The Case of the Hindu Kush/Himalaya Region pp. 100-118

Richard Matthew

How Regional Is Regional Environmental Governance? pp. 119-126

Bernard Debarbieux

The Rise of the Region in Global Environmental Politics pp. 127-133

Ken Conca

A Radical Environmental Politics? pp. 134-139

J. Samuel Barkin

Book Review: Allan, Tony. 2011. Virtual Water. London: I.B. Tauris pp. 140-141

Dallas Blaney

Book Review: Harris, Paul G., ed.2010. China's Responsibility for Climate Change: Ethics, Fairness and Environmental Policy. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press pp. 142-143

Kai Sun

Book Review: Haque, A. K. Enamul, M. N. Murty, and Priya Shyamsundar. 2011. Environmental Valuation in South Asia. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press pp. 143-145

Armin Rosencranz, Maya Kornberg and Clay Ramel

Volume 12, issue 2, 2012

Lost in Translation: Climate Denial and the Return of the Political pp. 1-8

Gert Goeminne

A General Theory of Climate Denial pp. 9-17

Peter J. Jacques

Politicizing Environmental Science Does Not Mean Denying Climate Science Nor Endorsing It Without Question pp. 18-23

Tim Forsyth

Moving Forward in the Climate Negotiations: Multilateralism or Minilateralism? pp. 24-42

Robyn Eckersley

Understanding the Paradoxes of Multilevel Governing: Climate Change Policy in the European Union pp. 43-66

Andrew Jordan, Harro van Asselt, Frans Berkhout, Dave Huitema and Tim Rayner

EU Climate and Energy Policy: A Hesitant Supranational Turn? pp. 67-86

Jørgen Wettestad, Per Ove Eikeland and Måns Nilsson

Climate Challenges, Ecological Modernization, and Technological Forcing: Policy Lessons from a Comparative US-EU Analysis pp. 87-109

Joseph Szarka

It's About Development, Stupid! International Climate Policy in a Changing World pp. 110-115

Steffen Bauer

Woods, Kerri. 2010. Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar pp. 116-117

Armelle Gouritin

Carmody, Pádraig. 2011. The New Scramble for Africa. Cambridge, UK, and Maiden, MA: Polity Press pp. 117-119

Christopher Gore

Gale, Fred and Marcus Haward. 2011. Global Commodity Governance: State Responses to Sustainable Forest and Fisheries Certification. Palgrave Macmillan pp. 120-122

Paul Foley

Volume 12, issue 1, 2012

Making Sense of CO_2: Putting Carbon in Context pp. 1-7

Adam Moolna

Technological Power as a Strategic Dilemma: CO_2 Capture and Storage in the International Oil and Gas Industry pp. 8-29

Andreas Tjernshaugen

Regulating Nanotechnologies: Risk, Uncertainty and the Global Governance Gap pp. 30-55

Robert Falkner and Nico Jaspers

Global Banks, the Environment, and Human Rights: The Impact of the Equator Principles on Lending Policies and Practices pp. 56-77

Christopher Wright

The Evolution of Environment-Conflict Research: Toward a Livelihood Framework pp. 78-100

Tom Deligiannis

Conflict and Cooperation along International Rivers: Crafting a Model of Institutional Effectiveness pp. 101-120

Ramiro Berardo and Andrea K. Gerlak

Everyday Possibilities pp. 121-125

Michael F. Maniates

Environmental Inequalities beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices pp. 126-128

Tatyana B. Ruseva

Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction pp. 128-129

Claire Dupont

Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China pp. 130-131

Mark Henderson