Description
This introduction to global environmental politics examines why environmental challenges occur and how we can effectively respond to them.
About the Author
Hayley Stevenson is Associate Professor in International Relations at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, and Reader in Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance (2012), Democratizing Global Climate Governance (with John S. Dryzek, Cambridge, 2014) and co-editor of Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics: International Relations and the Earth (with Olaf Corry, 2017).
Reviews
'What a wonderful book! Her book is rare for textbooks in the field in insisting on starting with the question of why environmental degradation occurs, and that this is a political question. This gives admirable focus to the volume that then covers the topics that are taught in courses on Global Environmental Politics (GEP) with great clarity. Students who are blessed to have Hayley Stevenson's book as their introduction to GEP will come away enriched and with a clarity of understanding that is hard to match.' Matthew Paterson, University of Manchester
'... all concepts are well introduced and clearly explained ... [the chapters] offer a nice bridge between the original authors of ideas and the secondary literature.' Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University
'... more accessible, more engaging; better in many ways than my existing text.' Kemi Fuentes-George, Middlebury College
'The book has a very logical progression that nicely leads students through the necessary foundational theory, and into some of the important empirical topics and issues in the field ... the author writes with a level of passion and enthusiasm that is too often missing from these types of texts ... this is definitely the type of text around which I could see structuring an undergraduate environmental politics unit.' Robert MacNeil, The University of Sydney
'Engagingly written, full of detail on the key environmental threats of our time, and offering students contending explanations for both the causes of those problems and responses to them, Global Environmental Politics sets a new benchmark for textbooks in this area'. Peter Newell, University of Sussex
Book Information
ISBN 9781107547537
Author Hayley Stevenson
Format Paperback
Page Count 366
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 730g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 175mm * 18mm