Research trends in global environmental politics / Peter Dauvergne -- When regimes backfire : institutional expectations and environmental deadlock / J. Samuel Barkin -- Changing issue structure to avoid free riders : protecting the ocean environment / Elizabeth R. DeSombre -- International environmental regimes as decision machines / Thomas Gehring -- Climate regime design, the global warming potential, and climate risk management / Tora Skodvin -- The politics of persuasion : UN climate change negotiations / Radoslav Dimitrov -- Do we need more global sustainability conferences? / Steinar Andresen -- Changing North -- South challenges in global environmental politics / Joyeeta Gupta -- Environment, conflict, and peacebuilding / Richard Matthew -- The comfortable lie? : another look at natural resource scarcity and armed conflict / Indra de Soysa -- Legitimacy problems and responses in global environmental governance / Steven Bernstein -- International organizations and global environmental governance : toward structural reform / Frank Biermann -- Studying the global commons : governance without politics? / John Vogler -- Long-term environmental policy : definition -- origin -- response options / Detlef F. Sprinz -- Global environmental politics and governance : a networks and flows perspective / Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren -- Global multilevel governance and the management of hazardous chemicals / Henrik Selin -- Governing climate change : the challenge of mitigating and adapting in a warming world / Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan -- Climate governance experiments / Matthew J. Hoffmann -- Global cities and the politics of climate change / Harriet Bulkeley and Heike Schroeder -- The political ecology of globalization / Peter Newell -- Exploring global governance from a critical global political economy perspective / Gabriela Kütting -- Nonstate actors in global environmental governance / Matthias Finger and David Svarin -- The effectiveness of private environmental governance / Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni -- Private actors and strategies in global environmental governance : the role of information disclosure / David L. Levy -- Business power, business conflict : a neo-pluralist perspective on international environmental politics / Robert Falkner -- Impacts of nonstate governance : lessons from the certification of marine fisheries / Lars H. Gulbrandsen -- Evaluating World Bank environmental performance / Tamar Gutner -- Greening development finance : cases from the World Bank Group / Susan Park -- Moving the earth : cars and the dynamics of environmental politics / Matthew Paterson -- Trade -- environment politics : the emerging role of regional trade agreements / Sikina Jinnah -- Environmental human rights : greening "the dignity and worth of the human person" / Ken Conca -- Thinking like a planet : Gaian politics and the transformation of the world food system / Karen Litfin -- After nature : environmental politics in a postmodern age / Paul Wapner -- Knowledge, power and global environmental policy / Marc Williams -- The global politics of geoengineering / David Humphreys -- A sustainability ethic / Thomas Princen -- The sustainability debate : déjà vu all over again? / Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response / Lorraine Elliott -- Democracy and global environmental politics / Karin Bäckstrand -- Ecological citizenship revisited / Andrew Dobson.