Environmental Change and Foreign Policy

Paul G. Harris is Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is author/editor of International Equity and Global Environmental Politics, The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy, International Environmental Cooperation, Global Warming and East Asia, Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia, The Global Politics of AIDS (with Patricia Siplon), Europe and Global Climate Change, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy, Climate Change and Foreign Policy, The Politics of Climate Change, World Ethics and Climate Change, China’s Responsibility for Climate Change, Ethics and Global Environmental Policy, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China, the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics and other books.

• 1. Introduction: Environmental Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice Paul G. Harris Part 1: Theory 2. Theories of Environmental Foreign Policy: Power, Interests, and Ideas John Barkdull and Paul G. Harris 3. The Symbolism of Environmental Policy: Foreign Policy Commitments as Signaling Tools Loren R. Cass 4. Pluralistic Politics and Public Choice: Theories of Business and Government Responses to Climate Change Thomas L. Brewer 5. The Politics of Socionatures: Images of Environmental Foreign Policy Maximilian Mayer and Friedrich J. Arndt Part 2: Practice 6. The Domestication of International Environmental Conventions: Biodiversity in Ugandan Foreign Policy David R. Mutekanga 7. From Local Protest to the International Court of Justice: Forging Environmental Foreign Policy in Argentina Isabella Alcaniz and Ricardo Gutierrez 8. Finnish Environment and Foreign Policy: Supranationalism, Pragmatism, and Consensus Building Mika Merviö 9. Canada's Foreign Policy on Persistent Organic Pollutants: The Making of an Environmental Leader Ken Wilkening and Charles Thrift 10. Greening the Streams: Water in EU and US Foreign Policy Sara Hughes and Lena Partzsch 11. Trade and the Environment: Foreign Policies of Developing Countries in Asia Yohei Harashima 12. Financing for the Environment: Explaining Unequal Burden Sharing Aike Müller 13. Conclusion: Environmental Foreign Policy: Towards a Conceptual Framework Mihaela Papa