The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the climate crisis while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, issues, laws, and policies in global environmental politics. Chapter authors provide crucial historical context while synthesizing the latest scholarship for a student audience.

In addition to three entirely new chapters, all of the essays are written specifically for this volume— updated with new case material, maps, figures, examples, and interpretations. Additionally, an updated chronology of global environmental policy and an updated list of acronyms aid students in critical reading, as well as review and study.

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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the climate crisis while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, issues, laws, and policies in global environmental politics. Chapter authors provide crucial historical context while synthesizing the latest scholarship for a student audience.

In addition to three entirely new chapters, all of the essays are written specifically for this volume— updated with new case material, maps, figures, examples, and interpretations. Additionally, an updated chronology of global environmental policy and an updated list of acronyms aid students in critical reading, as well as review and study.

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1. Introduction: Governing the International Environment
Regina S. Axelrod, Stacy D. VanDeveer, and Norman J. Vig

Part I. International Environmental Institutions and Regimes
2. Global Institutions and the Environment: An Evolutionary Perspective
Marvin S. Soroos
3. Environmental Protection in the Twenty-first Century: The Role of International Law
Jacqueline Peel
4. Global Environmental Policy: Governance through Regimes
David Leonard Downie
5. The Role of Environmental NGOs in International Regimes
John McCormick

Part II. Global Environmental Policy: Cases and Questions
6. International Climate Change Policy: Toward the Multilevel Governance of Global Warming
Michele M. Betsill
NEW 7. Global Politics and Policy of Hazardous Chemicals
Henrik Selin
8. Economic Integration and Environmental Protection
Daniel C. Esty
9. Compliance with Global Environmental Policy
Michael Faure and Jürgen Lefevere

Part III. Implementing Global Policy: Cases and Controversies in Sustainable Development
10. The United States and Global Environmental Politics: Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism
Elizabeth R. DeSombre
11. Environmental Policy–making in the European Union System
Regina S. Axelrod, Miranda A. Schreurs, and Norman J. Vig
12. The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics
Adil Najam
NEW 13. Energy and Environment in China: Achievements and Enduring Challenges
Joanna Lewis and Kelly Simms Gallagher
14. Democracy and Nuclear Power: The Czech Case and the Global Nuclear Renaissance
Regina S. Axelrod
NEW 15. Consumption, Commodity Chains, and the Global Environment
Stacy D. VanDeveer

I am so excited to hear that Regina S. Axelrod, Stacy D. VanDeveer and David Leonard Downie are publishing a third edition of Global Environment: Institution, Law and Policy. I searched far and wide for an updated text but I found nothing that stood up to this content. I did a nominal group technique study last semester with my students who were using this text for International Environmental Issues, and we had students actually advocating for the text to be used again. My students enjoy the text just as much as I do, and I’m looking forward to the updated version. - Emily Rhodenbaugh, Sierra Nevada College

Regina S. Axelrod is professor of political science and chair of the political science department at Adelphi University. She has published numerous articles and books on environmental and energy policy in the United Sates, the European Union, and Central Europe, including Environment, Energy, Public Policy: Toward a Rational Future and Conflict between Energy and Urban Environment. She has lectured at Charles University, Prague, and the University of Budapest on nuclear power and the transition to democracy. She is an academic associate of the Atlantic Council and past president of the New York Political Science Association. In 2007, she received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to lecture in the Czech Republic. She also received grants from the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, the Soros Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Stacy VanDeveer is associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include international environmental policymaking adn its domestic impacts, the connections between environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the connections between environmental and security issues, and the role of expertise in policymaking. He has received research funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Research (MISTRA), among others. In addition to authoring and coauthoring numerous articles, book chapters, working papers, and reports, he is the coeditor of Saving the Seas (1997), EU Enlargement and the Environment (2005), Changing Climates in North American Politics (2009), Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics (2009), and Comparative Environmental Politics (forthcoming).

David Leonard Downie is director of environmental studies and associate professor of politics at Fairfield University. He has written extensively on global environmental politics and international relations, including Northern Lights against POPs: Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic, coedited with Terry Fenge. He previously taught courses in international environmental politics at Columbia University and served as director of the university’s Earth Institute Fellows Program and as director of environmental policy studies at its School of International and Public Affairs.