The Environment and International Relations (Lancaster Pamphlets) - Softcover

Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. The book takes a longer view of the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in International relations, to the study of global environmental change, rather than the more familiar case-study approach. The volume provides a wide ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in International Relations. There are chapters on Normative Theory and the idea of environmental security and on the significant connections between gender and global environmental change. There is a radical approach to international political ecology and a discussion of International Political Economy. A range of key international processes are considered: from the formulation of issues through to the monitoring and implementation of international agreement. Also contained are chapters on conference diplomacy, the role of international organisation, the role of ideology in negotiations and the important interaction between trade and environmental issues.

A critical treatment of the debate between neo-realism and liberal institutionalism that has dominated the study of international environmental cooperation is also included.

John Vogler is at Liverpool John Moores University. Mark Imber is at the University of St. Andrews.