Jeannie Sowers is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include comparative and international environmental politics, with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa.
Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research interests include EU environmental and energy politics, global environmental policymaking and institutions, comparative environmental politics, the roles of expertise in policymaking, and the global politics of resources and consumption.
Erika Weinthal is Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. She specializes in global environmental politics and environmental peacebuilding, with an emphasis on water and energy.

• List of Contributors


• Introduction: Comparative Environmental Politics


• Jeannie Sowers


• Erika Weinthal


• Stacy D. VanDeveer


• Part 1: STATES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE


• 1. The Environmental State and its Limits


• James Meadowcroft


• 2. California's Environmental Policy Leadership


• David Vogel


• 3. Assessing 30 Years of Neoliberal Environmental Management in Chile: Effective, Democratic or Neither?


• Javiera Barandiarán


• 4. Environment and Development: Crossing the Divide between Global South and Global North


• Kathryn Hochstetler


• 5. National Climate Mitigation Policy in Europe


• Paul Tobin


• Louise Wylie


• 6. Governing Flood and Climate Risks in Netherlands and Hungary: A Comparative Approach


• Elizabeth Albright


• 7. The Politics of Climate Disasters, Social Inequality, and Perceptions of Government Assistance


• Isabella Alcañiz


• Ana Ivelisse Sanchez-Rivera


• 8. Implementation of International Environmental Law: A Comparative Perspective


• Maria Ivanova


• Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy


• Anna Dubrova


• Candace Famiglietti


• 9. Comparative International Fisheries Management


• Elizabeth R. DeSombre


• Part 2: METHODS AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS


• 10. Interpretive Methodologies, Quantitative Methods, and Comparative Environment Politics


• J. Samuel Barkin


• V. Miranda Chase


• Saskia van Wees


• 11. Ethnography in Comparative Environmental Politics: Insights from the Water and Waste Fields


• Raul Pacheco-Vega


• 12. An Intersectional Exploration of Climate Institutions


• Annica Kronsell


• Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir


• Nanna Rask


• Benedict E. Singleton


• 13. Gender and Comparative Environmental Politics: Examining Population Debates Through Gender Lenses


• Nicole Detraz


• Part 3: Movements and Activism


• 14. Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Animal Liberation Movements: Confronting the Problem of Social Difference


• David Naguib Pellow


• 15. Civil Society, Networks and Contention around Environmental Issues


• Jennifer Hadden


• Jennifer Iris Allan


• 16. Time and Place in Climate Activism: Three Urgency-Induced Debates


• Joost de Moor


• 17. The Comparative Politics of Environmental Activism in Russia: Strategic Adaptation to Authoritarianism


• Laura A. Henry


• 18. Anglo Fears: Rejection of Climate Science and Anglo Anxiety


• Peter J. Jacques


• 19. Civil Disobedience, Sabotage, and Violence in US Environmental Activism


• Joseph Brown


• Part 4: Markets and Firms in Comparative Environmental Politics


• 20. Territory, Private Authority, and Rights: The Place of Land Rights in Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Certification


• Tim Bartley


• 21. Comparing Voluntary Sustainability Standards: Blindspots, Biases, and Pathways Forward


• Hamish van der Ven


• 22. Continuity and Change in Carbon Market Politics


• Carley Chavara


• Christian Elliot


• Matthew Hoffman


• Matthew Paterson


• Part 5: Environmental Justice and Rights


• 23. The Comparative Politics of Environmental Justice


• Kemi-Fuentes George


• 24. Toward a Comparative Politics of Environmental Justice: Critical Perspectives on Representation, Equity, and Rights


• Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya


• 25. Globalization of Environmental Justice: A Framework for Research


• Prakash Kashwan


• 26. Rights of Nature: Institutions, Law and Policy for Sustainable Development


• Craig Kauffman


• 27. Implementing Environmental Rights: Reviewing the Evidence from Research and Practice


• Joshua Gellers


• Chris Jeffords


• 28. Gendering the Human Right to Water in the Context of Sustainable Development


• Farhana Sultana


• Part 6: Natural Resources and Political Economy


• 29. Green Industrial Policy in Comparative Perspective: Supporting Renewable Energy Industry Development in Emerging Economies


• Joanna I. Lewis


• 30. Natural Resources and the Politics of Distribution


• Mohannad Al-Suwaidan


• Nimah Mazaheri


• 31. Temporality, Limited Statehood, and Africa's Abandoned Mines


• W. R. Nadège Compaoré


• Nathan Andrews


• 32. Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Mekong: The Interplay of Actors, Legal Governance, and Political Economy


• Songkhun Nillasithanukroh


• Ekta Patel


• Edmund Malesky


• Erika Weinthal


• Part 7: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY TRANSITIONS


• 33. Fracked Taxpayers and Communities: Shale Economies in US and Argentina


• Shanti Gamper-Rabindran


• 34. Renewable Energy, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change: Opportunities and (Many) Challenges


• Michaël Aklin


• 35. Renewable Energy Supply Chains and the Just Transition


• Dustin Mulvaney


• 36. The Rise and Fall of Fossil Fuels: Two Moments in the Energy History of the Middle East and their Global Consequences


• Daniel Rabinowitz


• Part 8: Cities And Sustainability


• 37. Cities and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agency-Centered Research Agenda


• Christopher Gore


• 38. Reclaiming the Circular Economy: Informal Work and Grassroots Power


• Manisha Anantharaman


• 39. Urban Climate Adaptation: Discontents and Alternative Politics


• Eric Chu


• Linda Shi


• Part 9: Environment, Resources and Violence


• 40. War and Environmental Politics: A Comparative Perspective


• Jeannie Sowers


• Erika Weinthal


• 41. Climate and Conflict: Lessons from the Syria Case


• Marwa Daoudy


• 42. The Integration of Conservation and Security: Political Ecologies of Violence and the Illegal Wildlife Trade


• Rosaleen Duffy


• Francis Massé

Including 42 chapters, organized across 9 sections, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics explores some of the most important environmental issues through the lens of comparative politics, including energy, climate change, food, health, urbanization, waste, and sustainability. The chapters delve into more traditional forms of comparative environmental politics (CEP)--the political economy of natural resources and the role of corporations and supply chains--while also showcasing new trends in CEP scholarship, particularly the comparative study of environmental injustice and intersectional inequities. The Handbook highlights scholarship from a broader range of regions and includes approaches from political science, anthropology, sociology, geography, gender theory, law, human rights, and development studies.