Part 1: International Environmental Problems and their Sources Overview of the problems Global change and the earth system: a planet under pressure - Will Steffen, Angelina Sanderson, Peter Tyson, Jill Jaeger, Pamela Matson, Berrien Moore III, Frank Oldfield, Katherine Richardson, John Schellnhuber, B.L. Turner II, and Robert Wasson Sustainability science - Robert W. Kates et al Entering the century of the environment: a new social contract for science. - Jane Lubchenco The long-term development of global environmental risk management: conclusions and implications for the future - Josee van Eijndhoven, William C. Clark, and Jill Jaeger Basic structural forces The IPAT equation and its variants: changing views of technology and environmental impact. - Marian R. Chertow Population An essay on the principle of population - T. R. Malthus Optimum human population size - Gretchen Daily, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul Ehrlich Tragedy of the Commons The tragedy of the commons - Garrett Hardin Common-pool resources and international environmental politics - J. Samuel Barkin and George E. Shambaugh Reformulating the commons - Elinor Ostrom Development and capacity Economic growth and the environment - Gene M. Grossman and Allen B. Krueger Capacity development for the environment: broadening the focus - Ambuj D. Sagar and Stacy D. van Deveer Human values Sustainability values, attitudes, and behaviors: a review of multinational and global trends - Anthony A. Leiserowitz, Robert W. Kates, and Thomas M. Parris The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement: a summary - Arne Naess Movements, networks, hierarchies: a gender perspective on global environmental governance - Charlotte Bretherton Large scale forces Rethinking the ecology-sovereignty debate - Ken Conca Towards a political economy of global environmental governance - Peter Newell Understanding global environmental politics: domination, accumulation, resistance - Matthew Paterson Part 2: International environmental agenda setting and policy formation Background on global environmental diplomacy The structuring of a world environmental regime, 1870-1990 - John W. Meyer, David John Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon Tuma International environmental agreements: a survey of their features, formation, and effects - Ronald B. Mitchell Appraising the earth summit - Peter M. Haas, Marc A. Levy, and Edward A. Parson Perspectives on the Johannesburg Summit - James Gustave Speth Determinants of success in institutional creation and of institutional design Overview of influences on negotiations The formation of international regimes: hypotheses and cases - Gail Osherenko and Oran R. Young The interest-based explanation of international environmental policy - Detlef Sprinz and Tapani Vaahtoranta Transnational cooperation dilemmas - Scott Barrett Self-interest and environmental management - Kenneth A. Oye and James M. Maxwell Specific influences: Powerful states The USA and global environmental policy: domestic constraints on effective leadership - Glen Sussman Baptists and bootleggers for the environment: the origins of United States unilateral sanctions - Elizabeth DeSombre Specific influences: Developing states The view from the South: developing countries in global environmental politics - Adil Najam Specific influences: Scientists Information and influence - Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, and David W. Cash Specific influences: NGOs NGO influence in international environmental negotiations: a framework for analysis - Michele M. Betsill and Elisabeth Corell Specific influences: leaders: Political leadership and regime formation: on the development of institutions in international society - Oran R. Young Alternatives to international agreements Environmental activism and world civic politics - Paul Wapner The privatization of global environmental governance: ISO 14000 and the developing world - Jennifer Clapp Private governance and the South: lessons from global forest politics - Philipp Pattberg Part 3: The effects of international environmental institutions Effectiveness as a concept The effect of international environmental institutions: how we might learn more - Thomas Bernauer One question, two answers - Arild Underdal Factors that influence institutional effectiveness The effectiveness of international environmental regimes - Oran R. Young and Marc A. Levy Assessing the record and designing strategies to engage countries - Harold K. Jacobson and Edith Brown Weiss Do regimes matter? Epistemic communities and Mediterranean pollution control - Peter M. Haas Institutional interaction in global environmental governance: the case of the Cartagena Protocol and the World Trade Organization - Sebastian Oberthor and Thomas Gehring Methodology Empirical research on international environmental policy: designing qualitative case studies - Ronald B. Mitchell and Thomas Bernauer The Oslo-Potsdam solution to measuring regime effectiveness: critique, response, and the road ahead - Jon Hovi, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal Part 4: International environmental issues and international environmental debates Issues Climate change Fourth Assessment Report Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Globalization, vulnerability to climate change, and perceived injustice - Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts Ozone Depletion The theoretical and practical significance of the ozone regime - Edward A. Parson Deforestation The environmental challenge to loggers in the Asia-Pacific: corporate practices in informal regimes of governance - Peter Dauvergne Biodiversity Domestic institutions and international regulatory cooperation: comparative responses to the Convention on Biological Diversity - Kal Raustiala Hazardous Waste Trade Seeping through the regulatory cracks: the international transfer of toxic waste - Jennifer Clapp Fisheries Unilateralism and multilateralism in international fisheries management - J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombre Rhine Reducing pollution of the Rhine River: the influence of international cooperation - Thomas Bernauer and Peter Moser European Union The European Union as an environmental governance system - Regina S. Axelrod, Norman J. Vig, and Miranda A. Schreurs Whaling Whalers, cetologists, environmentalists and the international management of whaling - M. J. Peterson Marine Pollution Regime design matters: intentional oil pollution and treaty compliance - Ronald B. Mitchell LRTAP Assessing the effectiveness of international environmental agreements: the case of the 1985 Helsinki Protocol - Evan Ringquist and Tatiana Kostadinova Debates World Environment Organization Toward a World Environment Organization: reflections upon a vital debate - Steve Charnovitz Addressing the global governance deficit - Peter M. Haas Free Trade and the Environment Bridging the trade-environment divide - Daniel C. Esty Beyond pollution havens - David Wheeler Environmental Security Armed conflict and the environment: a critique of the literature - Nils Petter Gleditsch The environment and violent conflict - Daniel M. Schwartz, Tom Deligiannis, and Thomas Homer-Dixon Sustainable Development From one earth to one world: an overview by the World Commission on Environment and Development - World Commission on Environment and Development The chimera of "sustainable development" - Wilfred Beckerman Sustainable development and Agenda 21: the secular bible of global free markets and pluralist democracy - Timothy Doyle International Financial Institutions and the Environment Delegation to international organizations: agency theory and World Bank environmental reform - Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. Tierney Concluding section The sovereignty of nature? environmental protection in a postmodern age - Paul Wapner 'Earth system governance' as a crosscutting theme of global change research - Frank Biermann
