Over recent decades national environmental policies have converged. This book analyses the international and domestic driving forces behind this process.

Has globalization led to a convergence in policy-making across nations and, if so, what are the causal mechanisms? This book analyses the extent to which the en

This edited book focuses on the dynamic balance between global cultural diversity and multilateral convergence in relevant policy areas that involve actual and

A critical analysis of the post-Rio consensus on environment and development which questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific

Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet’s natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. Fo