Helge Jörgens is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon and Integrated Researcher at CIES-Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Portugal.

Christoph Knill is Full Professor of Political Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany.

Yves Steinebach is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at the University of Oslo, Norway.

1 Introduction: A Research Agenda for Environmental Policy Analysis - Past, Present, and Future; PART I Analytical Concepts and Paradigms in Environmental Policy Analysis 2 Emergence and Development of the Environmental Policy Field; 3 Environmental Policy Outputs, Outcomes, and Impacts; 4 The Environmental State; 5 Polycentric Governance; 6 Ecological Modernization and Beyond; PART II Determinants of Environmental Policy Performance 7 Determinants of Performance in National Environmental Policies; 8 Bureaucracy and Environmental Policy; 9 Analytical Perspectives on Environmental Policy Integration; 10 Environmental Policy Implementation; 11 Environmental Policy Evaluation; 12 International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance; 13 The Role of Litigation of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in Environmental Politics and Policy; 14 Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Environmental Decision Making: The Case of Climate Change; 15 The Science-Policy Interface and Evidence-Based Policymaking in Environmental Policy: Promises and Pitfalls; PART III Environmental Policy Change 16 Policy Change and Policy Accumulation in the Environmental Domain: Causes and Consequences; 17 Leaders, Pioneers, and Followers in Environmental Governance; 18 Convergence and Diffusion of Environmental Policies; 19 Policy Design for Sustainable Energy and the Interplay of Procedural and Substantive Policy Instruments; 20 Securitization, Climate Change, and Energy; 21 Environmental Policy Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back; PART IV Transformation of Environmental Policies: Paradigmatic Challenges 22 The Challenge of Long-Term Environmental Policy; 23 Cities and Urban Transformations in Multi-Level Climate Governance; 24 Policy Mixes for Addressing Environmental Challenges: Conceptual Foundations, Empirical Operationalisation, and Policy Implications; 25 Fifty Shades of Sufficiency: Semantic Confusion and No Policy; 26 The New Climate Movement: Organization, Strategy, and Consequences; 27 Geoengineering and Public Policy: Framing, Research, and Deployment; 28 Environmental Policymaking in Authoritarian Countries: The Cases of Singapore and Russia; 29 Environmental Policy in Fast-Growing Economies: The Case of India; 30 Conclusions: Past Achievements and Future Directions for Environmental Policy Research