文档介绍：Handbook of Global
Environmental Politics
Edited by
Peter Dauvergne
University of British Columbia, Canada
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© Peter Dauvergne, 2005
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2 Research in global environmental politics:
history and trends
Peter Dauvergne*
What is global environmental politics? What are the core research questions
and findings in this field of inquiry? Where do the disciplinary boundaries
begin and end? There are no precise answers to these questions. The field of
global environmental politics began to emerge in the late 1960s and early
1970s. Today, it is no doubt partly grounded in the discipline of political
science – in an analysis of the role of states, global institutions, the global
political economy, global power, norms and ideology, as well as in theories of
international relations. Yet the very nature of almost every question on global
ecological change means the research crosses disciplinary boundaries. It
means, too, that some of the most innovative research is occurring outside of
political science, in disciplines like geography, environmental studies, eco-
nomics, sociology, law, history, philosophy, development studies, biology
and human ecology. There is naturally considerable d