Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered

A superbly edited collection. Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg bring together a group of world-class scholars to provide a visionary analysis of the latest trends and research gaps in global environmental governance. Any future inquiry will want to build on this landmark book.

Peter Dauvergne, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics, University of British Columbia

This is an excellent book that brings the minds of many of the world's leading scholars of global environmental politics to bear upon the question of how best to explain and improve the actors and mechanisms which underpin contemporary global environmental governance. I have no doubt that it will become a defining text in a crowded field.

Peter Newell, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex

This book summarizes core findings of a ten-year research program on Global Environmental Governance. Given the size and relevance of this project, it will be considered an invaluable resource for research in this field. Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered succeeds in providing both an overview of the state of the art and new insights.

Michael Zürn, Director of the Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions Research unit at the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin; Professor of International Relations, Free University Berlin

… this book provides an excellent summary of a collaborative, long-term study and should provide new material for debates on the use of science, the role of neoliberalism, and the relevance of power in international environmental negotiations.

Review of Policy Research

… the book offers a synthetic but comprehensive look at the development of global environmental governance, expanding on the spoils of the conceptual juridical tools built during the twentieth century but which are no longer sufficiently refined to address problems that have emerged within the contemporary global arena.

International Environmental Agreements

… the book presents a useful synthesis of contemporary trends in the global governance system and provides recommendations for policy and future research.

International Environmental Agreements

… starkly shows why we need to be concerned about the legitimacy and effectiveness of traditional state entities, laws, and processes dealing with global environmental issues.

International Social Science Review