Research trends in global environmental politics / Peter Dauvergne -- When regimes backfire : institutional expectations and environmental deadlock / J. Samuel Barkin -- Changing issue structure to avoid free riders : protecting the ocean environment / Elizabeth R. DeSombre -- International...

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1. Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change -- Four Environmental Worldviews -- Market Liberals -- Institutionalists -- Bioenvironmentalists -- Social Greens -- Conclusion --...

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Ecological Shadows of Rising Consumption -- 1 An Unbalanced Global Political Economy -- 2 Dying of Consumption -- I Automobiles -- 3 Accidental Dependency? The Road to an Auto World -- 4 A Better Ride: Selling...