The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics

Jeannie Sowers is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include comparative and international environmental politics, with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa. Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research interests include EU environmental and energy politics, global environmental policymaking and institutions, comparative environmental politics, the roles of expertise in policymaking, and the global politics of resources and consumption. Erika Weinthal is Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. She specializes in global environmental politics and environmental peacebuilding, with an emphasis on water and energy.

List of Contributors

Introduction: Comparative Environmental Politics
Jeannie Sowers
Erika Weinthal
Stacy D. VanDeveer

Part 1: STATES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

1. The Environmental State and its Limits
James Meadowcroft

2. California's Environmental Policy Leadership
David Vogel

3. Assessing 30 Years of Neoliberal Environmental Management in Chile: Effective, Democratic or Neither?
Javiera Barandiarán

4. Environment and Development: Crossing the Divide between Global South and Global North
Kathryn Hochstetler

5. National Climate Mitigation Policy in Europe
Paul Tobin
Louise Wylie

6. Governing Flood and Climate Risks in Netherlands and Hungary: A Comparative Approach
Elizabeth Albright

7. The Politics of Climate Disasters, Social Inequality, and Perceptions of Government Assistance
Isabella Alcañiz
Ana Ivelisse Sanchez-Rivera

8. Implementation of International Environmental Law: A Comparative Perspective
Maria Ivanova
Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy
Anna Dubrova
Candace Famiglietti

9. Comparative International Fisheries Management
Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Part 2: METHODS AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS

10. Interpretive Methodologies, Quantitative Methods, and Comparative Environment Politics
J. Samuel Barkin
V. Miranda Chase
Saskia van Wees

11. Ethnography in Comparative Environmental Politics: Insights from the Water and Waste Fields
Raul Pacheco-Vega

12. An Intersectional Exploration of Climate Institutions
Annica Kronsell
Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir
Nanna Rask
Benedict E. Singleton

13. Gender and Comparative Environmental Politics: Examining Population Debates Through Gender Lenses
Nicole Detraz

Part 3: Movements and Activism

14. Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Animal Liberation Movements: Confronting the Problem of Social Difference
David Naguib Pellow

15. Civil Society, Networks and Contention around Environmental Issues
Jennifer Hadden
Jennifer Iris Allan

16. Time and Place in Climate Activism: Three Urgency-Induced Debates
Joost de Moor

17. The Comparative Politics of Environmental Activism in Russia: Strategic Adaptation to Authoritarianism
Laura A. Henry

18. Anglo Fears: Rejection of Climate Science and Anglo Anxiety
Peter J. Jacques

19. Civil Disobedience, Sabotage, and Violence in US Environmental Activism
Joseph Brown

Part 4: Markets and Firms in Comparative Environmental Politics

20. Territory, Private Authority, and Rights: The Place of Land Rights in Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Certification
Tim Bartley

21. Comparing Voluntary Sustainability Standards: Blindspots, Biases, and Pathways Forward
Hamish van der Ven

22. Continuity and Change in Carbon Market Politics
Carley Chavara
Christian Elliot
Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Paterson
Part 5: Environmental Justice and Rights

23. The Comparative Politics of Environmental Justice
Kemi-Fuentes George

24. Toward a Comparative Politics of Environmental Justice: Critical Perspectives on Representation, Equity, and Rights
Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya

25. Globalization of Environmental Justice: A Framework for Research
Prakash Kashwan

26. Rights of Nature: Institutions, Law and Policy for Sustainable Development
Craig Kauffman

27. Implementing Environmental Rights: Reviewing the Evidence from Research and Practice
Joshua Gellers
Chris Jeffords

28. Gendering the Human Right to Water in the Context of Sustainable Development
Farhana Sultana

Part 6: Natural Resources and Political Economy

29. Green Industrial Policy in Comparative Perspective: Supporting Renewable Energy Industry Development in Emerging Economies
Joanna I. Lewis

30. Natural Resources and the Politics of Distribution
Mohannad Al-Suwaidan
Nimah Mazaheri

31. Temporality, Limited Statehood, and Africa's Abandoned Mines
W. R. Nadège Compaoré
Nathan Andrews

32. Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Mekong: The Interplay of Actors, Legal Governance, and Political Economy
Songkhun Nillasithanukroh
Ekta Patel


Edmund Malesky
Erika Weinthal

Part 7: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY TRANSITIONS

33. Fracked Taxpayers and Communities: Shale Economies in US and Argentina
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran

34. Renewable Energy, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change: Opportunities and (Many) Challenges
Michaël Aklin

35. Renewable Energy Supply Chains and the Just Transition
Dustin Mulvaney

36. The Rise and Fall of Fossil Fuels: Two Moments in the Energy History of the Middle East and their Global Consequences
Daniel Rabinowitz

Part 8: Cities And Sustainability

37. Cities and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agency-Centered Research Agenda
Christopher Gore

38. Reclaiming the Circular Economy: Informal Work and Grassroots Power
Manisha Anantharaman

39. Urban Climate Adaptation: Discontents and Alternative Politics
Eric Chu
Linda Shi

Part 9: Environment, Resources and Violence

40. War and Environmental Politics: A Comparative Perspective
Jeannie Sowers
Erika Weinthal

41. Climate and Conflict: Lessons from the Syria Case
Marwa Daoudy

42. The Integration of Conservation and Security: Political Ecologies of Violence and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Rosaleen Duffy
Francis Massé