The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory

Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities,The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT).

Featuring contributions from distinguished political scientists working in this field, this volume addresses canonical theorists and contemporary environmental problems with a diversity of theoretical approaches. The initial volume focuses on EPT as a field of inquiry, engaging both traditions of political thought and the academy. In the second section, the handbook explores conceptualizations of nature and the environment, as well as the nature of political subjects, communities, and boundaries within our environments. A third section addresses the values that motivate environmental theorists -- including justice, responsibility, rights, limits, and flourishing -- and the potential conflicts that can emerge within, between, and against these ideals. The final section examines the primary structures that constrain or enable the achievement of environmental ends, as well as theorizations of environmental movements, citizenship, and the potential for on-going environmental action and change.

Teena Gabrielson is Associate Professor of Political Science and teaches political theory at the University of Wyoming. Her work on environmental citizenship, justice, and toxics discourse has been published widely in distinguished scholarly journals such asEnvironmental Politics, Theory & Event, and Citizenship Studies.

Cheryl Hall is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. She is the author ofThe Trouble with Passion, Recognizing the Passion in Deliberative Democracy,What Will it Mean to Be Green? and other work exploring the interconnected roles that values, emotions, reason, imagination, deliberation, habits, stories, and structures play in encouraging or discouraging more just and sustainable ways of life.

John M. Meyer is Professor in the Department of Politics, in Environmental Studies, and in the Environment and Community program at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He is the author ofEngaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015), as well as other books and articles in environmental political theory.

David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, and the Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute, at the University of Sydney. He is the author ofDefining Environmental Justice, co-author of Climate Challenged Society, and co-editor ofThe Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, all with Oxford University Press.