This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics.

Introduction: Trajectories in environmental politics 1. Continuities and changes; voices and silences: a critical analysis of the first three decades of scholarship in Environmental Politics 2. Making matter great again? Ecofeminism, new materialism and the everyday turn in environmental politics 3. The future of 'environmental' policy in the Anthropocene: time for a paradigm shift 4. Nature, limits and form- of- life 5. New directions in environmental justice studies: examining the state and violence 6. Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics 7. The knowledge politics of climate change loss and damage across scales of governance 8. The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy 9. When do environmental NGOs work? A test of the conditional effectiveness of environmental advocacy 10. What's different about the environment? Environmental INGOs in comparative perspective 11. Right- wing populist parties and environmental politics: insights from the Austrian Freedom Party's support for the glyphosate ban 12. Greening states and societies: from transitions to great transformations 13. Climate changed urban futures: environmental politics in the anthropocene city 14. Imagination and critique in environmental politics