Global environmental politics
/ Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie.
- Eighth edition.
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- xvi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Global Environmental Politics has provided an accurate, up-to-date, and unbiased understanding of the world's most pressing environmental issues for over twenty-five years. The eighth edition continues this practice as it covers critical new developments in the field. Case studies on key issues such as climate change, toxic chemicals, and biodiversity detail the creation, expansion, and implementation of major environmental regimes and the continuing challenges they face. New material has been included on the Sustainable Development Goals, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Minamata Convention on Mercury, advancement of the Paris Climate Agreement, and recent developments related to global treaties on toxic chemicals, desertification, biological diversity, and more, completes this comprehensive introduction to contemporary international environmental politics.