Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.

Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.

A veteran environmental lobbyist reveals the behind-the-scenes struggles to address threats to the future of New York's Adirondack Park.

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

Opens up new ways of thinking about and debating the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice.

Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.

Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.

Combining humor and memorable anecdotes, five famous ecotourist destinations offer a breathtaking backdrop to better understanding climate change.

Examines a new type of federal preemption statute popular since 1965 that allows states to retain a certain amount of regulatory discretion, with a focus on environmental statutes.

Examines the role of politics in the environmental policy making process.

Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics.

Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.

Reveals the role played by political and economic elites in the privileging of civilian commercial nuclear energy over other options, such as solar, in the United States after 1945.

A fresh perspective on American water pollution policy

Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.

A new and original way of looking at the challenge presented by environmental issues.

Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.

Explores how policy actors in the United States and Russia have developed flexible incentive-based instruments for environmental protection.

Examines the domestic constraints negotiators operate under when nations seek to cooperate.

Examines state cooperation over increasingly scarce water resources.

Argues for new water policies in the Nile River Basin.

Examines why some nations, but not others, have met their commitments to international climate treaties.

The story of the twenty-five-year quest to preserve twenty thousand acres of forest in southeastern New York.

Detailed account of the controversy surrounding the building of a coal-fired cement factory in the Hudson Valley.

Examines how the European Union has handled environmental protection issues.

Examines the politics of transnational water resource management through case studies of the Aral Sea basin and the Danube, Euphrates, and Mekong river basins.

Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.

A path-breaking look at the international response to ozone depletion and climate change.

Examines the internal politics of transnational environmental advocacy networks.

Contends that effective biological conservation and social justice must go hand in hand.

Wetlands are a valuable natural resource, yet over 200,000 acres are destroyed in the United States per year. This book examines whether states should assume the role of protecting wetlands rather than the federal government.

Examines how the modern presidency has responded to environmental concerns.

Argues that the logic of common pool resources is the most appropriate and productive way to understand international environmental conflict, and offers important practical insights into environmental negotiations and bargaining.

Presents diverse views on the relationship between environmental politics and international security.

The environmental movement is having a marked impact on national and international politics. This book examines the dominant ethics, attitudes, and moral values behind the international environmental ...

This book provides the most detailed and comprehensive examination to date of the impact of environmentalism upon contemporary political thought. It sets out to disentangle the various strands of Green ...