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Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather events, high-level climate change diplomacy, special UN days of celebration, and popular media references to impending ecological collapse, most students are not exposed to the detailed presentation and analysis of the international relations and diplomacy of environmental policy-making. Comprehensive and accessibly written for first-year or second-year undergraduates, the second edition of Global Ecopolitics provides students with a panoramic view of the policymakers and the structuring bodies involved in the creation of environmental policies. Detailing a considerable amount of environmental activity since its initial 2012 publication, this up-to-date second edition uses an applicable framework of systemic analysis and important case studies that push students to form their own conclusions about past efforts, present needs, and future directions.

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Global Ecopolitics offers a compelling expose of the environmental challenges of our time, including known and persistent problems such as air and ocean pollution, climate change, deforestation, and loss of biodiversity, as well as new complex concerns such as invasive alien species, food security, nanotechnology, and energy production. It argues convincingly that effective, permanent, and consensual solutions must be rooted in adaptive governance and effective institutions at all levels and is a must-read for students and policymakers alike. - Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts Boston In the face of ecological destruction and political polarization, students are dubious: can green diplomacy really work? Telling the stories for pressing issues like biodiversity, climate change, deforestation, and toxic waste trade, the second edition of Global Ecopolitics provides a nuanced answer. By parsing 'effectiveness' into its institutional, environmental, cognitive, and social justice dimensions, this clear and concise book offers tools for students to decide for themselves--and, therefore, approach the world with a greater sense of grounded optimism. - Karen Litfin, Department of Political Science, University of Washington This is perhaps the most inspiring book on environmental politics of the last decade. Comprehensive in thematic scope, sophisticated in analysis, and interlaced with distinctly poetic personal reflections, it will captivate students' hearts and intellects. - Radoslav S. Dimitrov, University of Western Ontario

Global Ecopolitics offers a compelling expose of the environmental challenges of our time, including known and persistent problems such as air and ocean pollution, climate change, deforestation, and loss of biodiversity, as well as new complex concerns such as invasive alien species, food security, nanotechnology, and energy production. It argues convincingly that effective, permanent, and consensual solutions must be rooted in adaptive governance and effective institutions at all levels and is a must-read for students and policymakers alike. - Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts Boston

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Peter J. Stoett is Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute Of Technology. Shane Mulligan is an environmental consultant and policy researcher based in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario.

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