These four volumes bring together the very strongest writings from the scholarly literature on the increasingly important topic of international environmental politics, selected from a diverse range of disciplines and publications. The collection sheds light on the political sources of global environmental problems, the processes by which states negotiate solutions to them, and the efforts of international institutions to address them.

International Environmental Problems and Their Sources
Overview of the Problems Global Change and the Earth system
A planet under pressure
Sustainability Science
Entering the Century of the Environment: A new social contract for science.
The Long-Term Development of Global Environmental
Risk Management: Conclusions and implications for the future
Why these Problems Arise Basic structural forces
The IPAT Equation and Its Variants: Changing views of technology and environmental impact.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Optimum Human Population Size
The Tragedy of the Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons
Common-pool Resources and International Environmental Politics
Reformulating the commons
Development and Capacity Economic Growth and the Environment
Capacity Development for the Environment: Broadening the focus
Human values Sustainability Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors
A review of multinational and global trends
The Shallow and the Deep, Long-range Ecology Movement
A summary, Arne Naess Movements, Networks, Hierarchies
A gender perspective on global environmental governance
Large Scale Forces Rethinking the Ecology-sovereignty Debate
Towards a Political Economy of Global Environmental Governance
Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, accumulation, resistance
International Environmental Agenda Setting and Policy Formation
Background on Global Environmental Diplomacy
The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990
International Environmental Agreements: A survey of their features, formation, and effects
Appraising the Earth Summit
Perspectives on the Johannesburg Summit Determinants of Success in Institutional
Creation and of Institutional Design
Speth Overview of Influences on Negotiations
The Formation of International Regimes: Hypotheses and cases
The Interest-based Explanation of International Environmental Policy
Transnational Cooperation Dilemmas
Self-interest and Environmental Management
Specific Influences: Powerful states
The USA and global environmental policy: domestic constraints on effective leadership
Baptists and Bootleggers for the Environment
The origins of United States unilateral sanctions
Specific influences: Developing states
The View from the South: Developing countries in global environmental politics
Specific Influences: Scientists Information and Influence
Specific Influences: NGOs NGO Influenc
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