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Initially, this book was meant to be a sequel to Environmental Integration – Our Common Challenge, which was published in 2009 by SUNY Press, New York. The original manuscript for that book was considered too large for one volume, and the SUNY Press editor at the time suggested that I took some of the chapters out to publish them as a separate volume. I accepted this advice and intended to put the remaining chapters into a new book with the provisional title of Environmental Integration in a Comparative and International Perspective.

For several reasons, from 2010 (the year of the first Canterbury earthquake), my work on this project came to a virtual standstill, and I was only able to pick it up again in 2015. By then, much of what I had written for the 2009 publication needed to be updated and revised. Moreover, I began to rethink the rationale for the book, as it seemed to me that explaining the shortcomings and limitations of environmental integration around the world warranted more in-depth analysis than I had provided, based foremost on the comparative and international environmental policy and politics literature. It seemed that much of that literature only scraped the surface when analysing the sources or causes of the environmental (mal-) performance of governments. It had become obvious that, individually and collectively, governments had been failing to meet the environmental challenge for years and that the environment was rapidly deteriorating almost everywhere.