This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of the global environmental governance puzzle. Innovative thinking and high-profile expertise come together to create a volume that is accessible to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

Adaptation; Agro-Ecology; Aid; Antarctic Treaty system; Anthropocene; Arctic Council; Assessments; Audits; Biodiversity Regime; Biosafety; Boundary Organizations; Business and Corporations; Carrying Capacities Paradigm; CITES; Cities; Climate Change Regime; Common but Differenciated Responsabilities; Common Heritage of Humanity; Complex Systems; Compliance and Implementation; Conservation and Preservation; Corporate Social Responsibility; Critical Political Economy; Deep Ecology; Degrowth; Desertification Convention; Disasters; Dispute Resolution Mechanisms; Dumping; Ecocentrism; Ecofeminism; Ecological Modernization; Ecosystem Services (payments for); Effectiveness; Emerging Countries; Energy Transition; Environmental Justice; Epistemic Communities; Fisheries Governance; Gaia Theory; Geoengineering; Global Deliberative Democracy; Global Environment Facility; Global Environmental Governance Studies; Global Pact for the Environment; Global Public Good; Grassroots Movements; Green Democracy; Green Economy; Hazardous Wastes Regime; High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development; Human and Environmental Rights; Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities; Influential Individuals; Institutional Interactions; International Whaling Commission; Investment Protection; Kuznets Curve (environmental); Labeling and certification; Liability; Liberal Environmentalism; Litigation; Markets; Migrants; Military Conflicts; Minimata Convention; Negotiating Coalitions; Nongovernemental Organizations; Nonregimes; Ocean Plastics Charter; Ocean Protection; Orbital Space Debris; Ozone regime; Participation; Partnerships; Polycentricity; Policy Diffusion; Polluter Pays Principle; Population Sustainability; Post-Environmentalism; Precautionary Principle; Preventive Action Principle; Principle of Non-Regression; Private Regimes; REDD+; Regimes; Regional Governance; Reporting; Risk Society; Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent in Trade; Scale; Scarcity and Conflicts; Scenarios; Science; Secretariats; Security; Shaming; Sovereignty; Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; Summit Diplomacy; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals; Sustainable Finance; Taxation; Technology Transfer; Thermoeconomics; Tragedy of the Commons; Transboundary Air Pollution Regime; Transboundary Water Regime; Transgovernmental Networks; Transnational Crime; Transparency; Treaty Design; Treaty Negotiations; UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; United Nations Environment Programme; Wetlands Convention; World Bank; World Environment Organization; World Trade Organization

"Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance is an incredibly useful resource for students. It provides short introductory entries for students new to the field or from a related field. The authors compiled an impressive and cohesive list of entries that provides an excellent foundation for all students of global environmental governance." -- Gabriela Kuetting, Professor of Global Politics, Rutgers University, USA"This volume provides an essential glossary of critical terms and concepts in the field of international environmental politics for diplomats, analysts and students. The interdisciplinary array of expert authors provides terse and authoritative overview of the key concepts and debates that have defined the field of international environmental governance over the years. The entries carefully survey the intellectual ecosystem of the concepts applied to understanding and managing our global environmental crisis." –Peter M. Haas, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA"This volume is an indispensable resource for distilling what is most important for understanding the vast terrain of global environmental policy. Written by leading scholars, this book offers an authoritative lexicon to which one can turn for a quick, in-depth, and reliable reference. I wish this book was around when I was a student. I’m glad it is around now that I’m a professor." – Paul Wapner, Professor of Global Environmental Politics, American University, USA