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How has the discussion of climate change affected interstate relations? How do international climate politics influence domestic politics, and vice-versa? This book explores national responses to climate change, analyzes implications for economics and security, and proposes equitable and just schemes for fostering international cooperation.

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for decades to come without far more aggressive action. What explains this failure to effectively tackle one of the world's most serious problems? And what can we do about it? To answer these questions, Paul G. Harris looks at climate politics as a docto...

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for decades to come without far more aggressive action.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of Global Environmental Politics. It brings together leading international academic experts and features 40 chapters that: Provide a history of the discipline and explains the different applicable theories and perspectives. Examine the key actors and institutions, explaining the role of states, international organizations, foreign policy, international law, businesses and tran...

Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development uses Hong Kong to explore environmental economic and social development in China, providing concepts of sustainability, contexts for environmental policymaking, and key challenges in sustainable development.

Explores the prospects for achieving environmentally benign economic and social development in China. This title introduces major conceptions of sustainability, describes historical and political contexts for environmental policymaking, and analyses key challenges related to sustainable development, including air pollution, water quality and more.

Explains the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to protect the environment and natural resources. This book examines the problem of global climate change and assesses the manner in which governments and other actors have attempted to deal with it. It is suitable for scholars and students of environmental policy.

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world. The role played by the United States may determine our collective future. Newly availab.e in paperback, Climate change and American Foreign Policy examines the actors, institutions, and ideas shaping US policies and actions. Updated with a comprehensive preface by the editor, the book introduces the issue of climate change in the context of US foreign policy. It analyses policies and cr...

World Ethics and Climate Change combines the science of climate change with ethical critique to expose its impact, the increasing intensity of dangerous trends, particularly growing global affluence, material consumption and pollution and the intensifying moral dimensions of changes to the environment.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Examines the problem of global climate change and presents a series of case studies on Australia, China, Turkey, Hungary, Denmark, France, the European Union and the US to assess how they are attempting to deal with it.

Global Warming and East Asia" analyses the domestic politics, foreign policy and international relations of climate change in East and Southeast Asia. The countries of this important region are often disproportionately affected by climate change and, as they expand and develop, their contribution to the problem grows. The contributors investigate the increasingly widespread and disparate efforts to address global warming at international, nati...

From the first warning of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 to the international 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, from the Reagan era attempt to dismantle environmental policy through the Clinton administration, the United States -- the world's wealthiest country and also the world's largest polluter, has found ways to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the global environment. The U.S. has the financ...