Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics ─ International Relations and the Earth

How can a divided world share a single planet? As the environment rises ever higher on the global agenda, the discipline of International Relations (IR) is engaging in more varied and transformative ways than ever before to overcome environmental challenges.

Focusing in particular on the key trends of the past twenty years, this volume explores the main developments in the global environmental crisis, with each chapter considering an environmental issue and an approach within IR. In the process, adjacent fields including energy politics, science and technology and political economy are also touched on.

Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics is aimed at anybody interested in the key international environmental problems of the day, and those seeking clarification and inspiration in terms of approaches and theories that decode how the environment is accounted for in global politics. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of global environmental politics and governance, environmental studies and IR.

Olaf Corry is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His research is on global environmental politics, climate change and security, and International Theory. He is currently working on the security politics of geoengineering technologies.

Hayley Stevenson is Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research crosses the areas of global governance, global environmental politics, green political economy, and democratic theory.

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