Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community.

1. Humanity at the crossroads: The globalization of environmental crisis 2. Global environmental history: The long view 3. Seeking justice: International environmental governance and climate change 4. The globalizations of the environment 5. Environmental globalization and tropical forests 6. The sustainability debate: Idealism versus conformism - the controversy over economic growth 7. The European Union as an environmental leader in a global environment 8. Global indigenism and spaceship earth: Convergence, space, and re-entry friction 9. The lingering environmental impact of repressive governance: The environmental legacy of the apartheid era for the new South Africa 10. From Stockholm to Kyoto and beyond: A review of the globalization of global warming policy and North-South relations 11. State of Denial: The United States and the politics of global warming 12. The globalization of local air pollution 13. The Gleneagles G8 summit and climate change: A lack of leadership 14. Views of Kyoto and beyond: Interviews with Herman Daly and Jonathan Lash 15. Fueling injustice: Globalization, ecologically-unequal exchange and climate change