International Environmental Politics

Ronald Mitchell is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon. His book Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance won the 1995 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association for the best book on international environmental issues. His most recent book is Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence, edited with William C. Clark, David Cash, and Nancy M. Dickson and published by MIT Press. He has published numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes. He teaches courses on international relations, international environmental politics, and international organization.

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 Jäger, 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 Jäger
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