'I strongly recommend "International Politics and the Environment" as a reliable and sophisticated guide to the emergence of environmental problems as political issues, negotiations about them, and the conditions for the effectiveness of environmental regimes' - Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University. This book provides a sophisticated overview of the theories, concepts and methods central to the complex and contentious field of International Environmental Politics (IEP). Ronald B Mitchell carefully introduces students to the political processes involved in both causing and resolving international environmental problems. Each fully integrated chapter: links environmental policy to politics, bringing in a wide range of practical real-life examples; deepens students' theoretical understanding, helping them to identify and explain international environmental problems and their solutions; and, goes beyond description and develops students' ability to evaluate claims about outcomes in international environmental politics through empirical testing. A rounded, in-depth examination of IEP, this book has been specifically written for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in global environmental politics and modules of broader international relations programs. The series editors of "Sage Series on the Foundations of International Relations" includes Walter Carlsnaes, Uppsala University, Sweden and Jeffrey T. Checkel Simon, Fraser University, Canada. International Advisory Board includes Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University, USA; Emanuel Adler, University of Toronto, Canada; Martha Finnemore George, Washington University, USA; Andrew Hurrell, Oxford University, UK; G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University, USA; Beth Simmons, Harvard University, USA; Steve Smith, University of Exeter, UK; and, Michael Zuern, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany. "The Sage Foundations series" fills the gap between narrowly-focused research monographs and broad introductory text