Part I Introduction. Research trends in global environmental politics / Peter Dauvergne.

Part II States and cooperation. 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.

Part III Global goverance. 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.

Part IV The political economy of governance. 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.

Part V Knowledge and ethic. 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 : deja vu all over again? / Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Transnational environmental harm, inequity and the cosmopolitan response / Lorraine Elliott
Democracy and global environmental politics / Karin B©Þckstrand
Ecological citizenship revisited / Andrew Dobson.