Abstract
Global environmental politics has emerged as a center of interdisciplinary work that integrates research from a range of fields including international relations, comparative politics, geography, economics, history, law, climatology and biology. This chapter briefly reviews the emergence of global environmental politics as a distinct subfield within the discipline of international relations since the 1980s. Global environmental politics emerged relatively recently as a distinct field of study within the larger domain of international relations. The chapter provides a brief overview of the evolution of global environmental politics scholarship as well as offering entry points to begin exploring the great variety of topics within the field. Global environmental politics offered case studies to test hypotheses flowing out of the work on international regimes. Environmental problems are frequently characterized by scientific complexity and extensive uncertainty regarding causes and/or solutions.
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