International Environmental Politics

Part 1: International Environmental Problems and their Sources
Overview of the problems
Global change and the earth system: a planet under pressure - Will Steffen, Angelina Sanderson, Peter Tyson, Jill Jaeger, Pamela Matson, Berrien Moore III, Frank Oldfield, Katherine Richardson, John Schellnhuber, B.L. Turner II, and Robert Wasson
Sustainability science - Robert W. Kates et al
Entering the century of the environment: a new social contract for science. - Jane Lubchenco
The long-term development of global environmental risk management: conclusions and implications for the future - Josee van Eijndhoven, William C. Clark, and Jill Jaeger
Basic structural forces
The IPAT equation and its variants: changing views of technology and environmental impact. - Marian R. Chertow
Population
An essay on the principle of population - T. R. Malthus
Optimum human population size - Gretchen Daily, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul Ehrlich
Tragedy of the Commons
The tragedy of the commons - Garrett Hardin
Common-pool resources and international environmental politics - J. Samuel Barkin and George E. Shambaugh
Reformulating the commons - Elinor Ostrom
Development and capacity
Economic growth and the environment - Gene M. Grossman and Allen B. Krueger
Capacity development for the environment: broadening the focus - Ambuj D. Sagar and Stacy D. van Deveer
Human values
Sustainability values, attitudes, and behaviors: a review of multinational and global trends - Anthony A. Leiserowitz, Robert W. Kates, and Thomas M. Parris
The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement: a summary - Arne Naess
Movements, networks, hierarchies: a gender perspective on global environmental governance - Charlotte Bretherton
Large scale forces
Rethinking the ecology-sovereignty debate - Ken Conca
Towards a political economy of global environmental governance - Peter Newell
Understanding global environmental politics: domination, accumulation, resistance - Matthew Paterson
Part 2: International environmental agenda setting and policy formation
Background on global environmental diplomacy
The structuring of a world environmental regime, 1870-1990 - John W. Meyer, David John Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon Tuma
International environmental agreements: a survey of their features, formation, and effects - Ronald B. Mitchell
Appraising the earth summit - Peter M. Haas, Marc A. Levy, and Edward A. Parson
Perspectives on the Johannesburg Summit - James Gustave Speth
Determinants of success in institutional creation and of institutional design
Overview of influences on negotiations
The formation of international regimes: hypotheses and cases - Gail Osherenko and Oran R. Young
The interest-based explanation of international environmental policy - Detlef Sprinz and Tapani Vaahtoranta
Transnational cooperation dilemmas - Scott Barrett
Self-interest and environmental management - Kenneth A. Oye and James M. Maxwell
Specific influences: Powerful states
The USA and global environmental policy: domestic constraints on effective leadership - Glen Sussman
Baptists and bootleggers for the environment: the origins of United States unilateral sanctions - Elizabeth DeSombre
Specific influences: Developing states
The view from the South: developing countries in global environmental politics - Adil Najam
Specific influences: Scientists
Information and influence - Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, and David W. Cash
Specific influences: NGOs
NGO influence in international environmental negotiations: a framework for analysis - Michele M. Betsill and Elisabeth Corell
Specific influences: leaders:
Political leadership and regime formation: on the development of institutions in international society - Oran R. Young
Alternatives to international agreements
Environmental activism and world civic politics - Paul Wapner
The privatization of global environmental governance: ISO 14000 and the developing world - Jennifer Clapp
Private governance and the South: lessons from global forest politics - Philipp Pattberg
Part 3: The effects of international environmental institutions
Effectiveness as a concept
The effect of international environmental institutions: how we might learn more - Thomas Bernauer
One question, two answers - Arild Underdal
Factors that influence institutional effectiveness
The effectiveness of international environmental regimes - Oran R. Young and Marc A. Levy
Assessing the record and designing strategies to engage countries - Harold K. Jacobson and Edith Brown Weiss
Do regimes matter? Epistemic communities and Mediterranean pollution control - Peter M. Haas
Institutional interaction in global environmental governance: the case of the Cartagena Protocol and the World Trade Organization - Sebastian Oberthor and Thomas Gehring
Methodology
Empirical research on international environmental policy: designing qualitative case studies - Ronald B. Mitchell and Thomas Bernauer
The Oslo-Potsdam solution to measuring regime effectiveness: critique, response, and the road ahead - Jon Hovi, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal
Part 4: International environmental issues and international environmental debates
Issues
Climate change
Fourth Assessment Report Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Globalization, vulnerability to climate change, and perceived injustice - Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts
Ozone Depletion
The theoretical and practical significance of the ozone regime - Edward A. Parson
Deforestation
The environmental challenge to loggers in the Asia-Pacific: corporate practices in informal regimes of governance - Peter Dauvergne
Biodiversity
Domestic institutions and international regulatory cooperation: comparative responses to the Convention on Biological Diversity - Kal Raustiala
Hazardous Waste Trade
Seeping through the regulatory cracks: the international transfer of toxic waste - Jennifer Clapp
Fisheries
Unilateralism and multilateralism in international fisheries management - J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombre
Rhine
Reducing pollution of the Rhine River: the influence of international cooperation - Thomas Bernauer and Peter Moser
European Union
The European Union as an environmental governance system - Regina S. Axelrod, Norman J. Vig, and Miranda A. Schreurs
Whaling
Whalers, cetologists, environmentalists and the international management of whaling - M. J. Peterson
Marine Pollution
Regime design matters: intentional oil pollution and treaty compliance - Ronald B. Mitchell
LRTAP
Assessing the effectiveness of international environmental agreements: the case of the 1985 Helsinki Protocol - Evan Ringquist and Tatiana Kostadinova
Debates
World Environment Organization
Toward a World Environment Organization: reflections upon a vital debate - Steve Charnovitz
Addressing the global governance deficit - Peter M. Haas
Free Trade and the Environment
Bridging the trade-environment divide - Daniel C. Esty
Beyond pollution havens - David Wheeler
Environmental Security
Armed conflict and the environment: a critique of the literature - Nils Petter Gleditsch
The environment and violent conflict - Daniel M. Schwartz, Tom Deligiannis, and Thomas Homer-Dixon
Sustainable Development
From one earth to one world: an overview by the World Commission on Environment and Development - World Commission on Environment and Development
The chimera of "sustainable development" - Wilfred Beckerman
Sustainable development and Agenda 21: the secular bible of global free markets and pluralist democracy - Timothy Doyle
International Financial Institutions and the Environment
Delegation to international organizations: agency theory and World Bank environmental reform - Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. Tierney
Concluding section
The sovereignty of nature? environmental protection in a postmodern age - Paul Wapner
'Earth system governance' as a crosscutting theme of global change research - Frank Biermann