This Handbook provides a state-of-the art review of the core debates and contributions on global sustainability governance. An important resource for academics and practitioners researching and working in the fields of environment and sustainability governance and politics.

Introduction: Critical and Transformative Perspectives on Global Sustainability Governance Part 1: Conceptual Lenses 1. Power and Legitimacy 2. Environmental Governance as Performance 3. Engaging the Everyday: Sustainability as Resonance 4. Materiality and Nonhuman Agency 5. Worlding Global Sustainability Governance Part 2: Ethics, Principles, and Debates 6. Justice 7. Representation of Future Generations 8. The 'Good Life' and Protected Needs 9. Post-Eurocentric Sustainability Governance: Lessons from the Latin American Buen Vivir Experiment 10. Responsibility 11. Religion 12. Sufficiency Part 3. Key Challenges 13. North-South Inequity and Global Environmental Governance 14. Growth and Development 15. The Mining Dilemma 16. Financialising Nature 17. Environmental Countermovements: Organised Opposition to Climate Change Action in the United States 18. A Critique of Techno-Optimism: Efficiency Without Sufficiency is Lost 19. Consumer Values and Consumption 20. The Population Challenge Part 4: Transformative Approaches 21. Beyond Magical Thinking 22. Democracy in The Anthropocene 23. Living Well within Limits: the Vision of Consumption Corridors 24. Beyond GDP: The Economics of Well-being 25. Beyond A-Growth: Sustainable Zero Growth 26. Work-Time Reduction for Sustainable Lifestyles 27. Decarbonisation 28. Localism, Sharing, and Care Conclusion: Global Sustainability Governance - Really?