Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities

by Falkner, Robert; Buzan, Barry

• ISBN13: 9780198866022
• ISBN10: 019886602X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-04-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Robert Falkner, Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science,Barry Buzan, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics
and Political Science

Robert Falkner is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include Environmentalism and Global International Security
(Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Barry Buzan is a Fellow of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor in the LSE Department of International Relations and a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. His publications include Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation (co-edted with Evelyn Goh, OUP, 2020), The Making of Global International Relations
(with Amitav Acharya, Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction, Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan
2. Great Powers and Environmental Responsibilities: A Conceptual Framework, Barry Buzan and Robert Falkner
Part II: Environmental Powers
3. Great Expectations: The United States and the Global Environment, Robyn Eckersley
4. China as a 'Partial' Environmental Great Power, Pichamon Yeophantong and Evelyn Goh
5. The European Union: A Green Great Power?, Katja Biedenkopf, Claire Dupont, and Diarmuid Torney
6. Brazil: A Boundary Case of Environmental Power, Kathryn Hochstetler
7. Politics of Responsibility: India in Global Climate Governance, Miriam Prys-Hansen
8. Great Power Ambitions and National Interest in Russia's Climate Change Policy, Alina Averchenkova
Part III: International Institutions and Issue Areas
9. Great Power Responsibility for Climate Security in the United Nations Security Council, Shirley Scott
10. Great Power Responsibility and International Climate Leadership, Sanna Kopra
11. Environmental Great Powers and Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Susan Park
12. World on Fire: Coal Politics and Great Power Responsibility, Stacy D. VanDeveer and Tim Boersma
Part IV: Conclusions
13. Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Responsibilities: A Concluding Assessment, Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan