The Global Environment
Institutions Law and Policy
2nd Edition
Published on 29. July 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
283 pages
978-1-56802-827-9 (ISBN)
Description
A timely collection of essays that analyse key issues, institutions, laws, and policies for the protection of the global environment. The new edition of this popular text provides crucial historical background on the development of global environmental organisations and treaties, engaging discussions of current and critical global environmental agreements, and insights into national and international implementation of sustainable development principles. Drawing together a distinguished list of international contributors, the book includes six brand new chapters on such important topics as regime theory, climate change, hazardous chemical controls, perspectives of the developing world, and the European Union's and United States' international environmental policies. All other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. The book includes a useful chronology of global environmental policy and a list of acronyms to help students in critical reading, review and study.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
428 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56802-827-9 (9781568028279)
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Persons
The Editors Regina S. Axelrod is professor of political science and chair of the political science department at Adelphi University and is the author of Environment, Energy, Public Policy: Toward a Rational Future and Conflict between Energy and Urban Environment. David Leonard Downie is Director of the Earth Institute Fellows Program at Columbia University and author of Northern Lights against POPs: Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic, co-edited with Terry Fenge. Norman J. Vig is Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus at Carleton College and author of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union, coedited with Michael G. Faure (2004).
Content
Table of Contents Preface Global Environmental Policy: A Short Chronology Acronyms1. Introduction: Governing the International Environment - Norman J. Vig I. International Institutions and Regimes2. Global Institutions and the Environment: An Evolutionary Perspective - Marvin S. Soroos3. Environmental Protection in the Twenty-first Century: Sustainable Development and International Law - Philippe Sands and Jacqueline Peel4. New! Global Environmental Policy: Governance through Regimes - David Downie5. The Role of Environmental NGOs in International Regimes - John McCormick II. Global Environmental Policy: Cases and Questions6. New! Global Climate Change Policy: Making Progress or Spinning Wheels? - Michele Betsill7. New! Global Policy for Hazardous Chemicals - Johnathan Krueger, Henrik Selin and David Downie8. Economic Integration and Environmental Protection - Daniel C. Esty9. Compliance with Global Environmental Policy - Michael Faure and Jurgen Lefevere III. Implementing Global Policy: Cases and Controversies in Sustainable Development10. New! Understanding United States Unilateralism: Domestic Sources of U.S. International Environmental Policy - Elizabeth DeSombre11. The European Union as an Environmental Governance System - Regina S. Axelrod, Norman J. Vig, and Miranda Schreurs12. New! The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics - Adil Najam13. New! Debating the Dam: Is China's Three Gorges Project Sustainable? - Lawrence R. Sullivan14. Democracy and Nuclear Power in the Czech Republic - Regina S. Axelrod