The Environment and International Relations

An introduction to the ways in which the tools and theories of international relations can be used to analyse global environmental problems.

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of commonly used abbreviations; 1. Introduction: the environment and international relations; 2. Global environmental problems; 3. Actors in global environmental politics; 4. State-led global environmental governance; 5. The impacts and effectiveness of global environmental governance; 6. Global economic governance and the environment; 7. Non-state global environmental governance; 8. The global politics of market mechanisms; 9. Conclusions: the environment and international relations in the twenty-first century; References; Index.