The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics examines how the difficult issues of social, political, and economic relations will complicate the e

Traditional views of global environmental politics take the structures and relations of international politics as a given. Solutions to environmental problems,

Explores the growing role of global civil society and local environmental activism in the management and protection of the environment worldwide.

Theoretical and empirical accounts of the role of business in shaping international environmental policies.

Understanding Global Environmental Politics develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. It argues that the major power structures of wor