International politics and the environment / Ronald B. Mitchell.

Includes bibliography (pages [207]-229) and index.

1. Explaining international environmental politics -- 2. Defining and distinguishing international environmental problems -- 3. Sources of international environmental problems -- 4. The international emergence of environmental problems -- 5. Negotiating solutions to international environmental problems -- 6. Evaluating the effectiveness of international environmental institutions -- 7. The future of international environmental politics.

International environmental politics is an important component of both current scholarship in, and the curricula of, departments of international relations, international studies, and political science in the United States and around the world. 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.