Books in the Politics, Science, and the Environment series

Theory and case studies that demonstrate the mechanisms by which global institutions influence the generation of scientific knowledge.

A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation.

Globalization seen through the lens of environmental governance; analyses of how the global and the local can accommodate one another.

An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the "management treadmill."

An analysis of the role and influence of scientists at the agenda-setting, legislative, and implementation stages of environmental policy making.

New approaches to managing the commons, based on recent theoretical and empirical research.

People and Forests explores the complex interactions between local communities and their forests, focusing on the rules by which communities govern and manage their forest resources.

Incorporating historical, sociological, and philosophical approaches, Changing the Atmosphere presents detailed empirical studies of climate science and its uptake into public policy.

This long-awaited two-volume book examines how the interplay of ideas and actions applied to environmental problems has laid the foundations for global environmental management.

How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing climate change-and what threatens their leadership.