Global Environmental Governance: Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies
Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them?\ Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten major environmental threats-climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, marine fisheries decline, toxic...
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Global Environmental Governance tells the story of how the community of nations, nongovernmental organizations, scientists, and multinational corporations have in recent decades created an unprecedented set of laws and institutions intended to help solve large-scale environmental problems. InBrief "Global Environmental Governance serves as an essential primer on the formation of international environmental law and policy...A wonderfully informative account by two of the most respected experts in the field, Global Environmental Governance is not to be missed for anyone looking toward the future of environmental law."— Rosaleen O'Gara
Ch. IIntroduction : toward planetary stewardship1Ch. IIGlobal-scale environmental challenges12Ch. IIIFrom Stockholm to Johannesburg : first attempt at global environmental governance52Ch. IVEnvironmental accord : treaties and international environmental law82Ch. VKey actors, expanding roles : the United Nations, international organizations, and civil society107Ch. VIPaths of the future : a second attempt at global environmental governance?125
\ CHOICE"With its concise but very thorough treatment of the inherently complex topic of global governance, whether focused on environmental or other issues, this first in the series sets a high bar for the ensuing books...Summing up: Recommended."\ — E.J. Kormondy\ \ \ \ \ \ InBrief"Global Environmental Governance serves as an essential primer on the formation of international environmental law and policy...A wonderfully informative account by two of the most respected experts in the field, Global Environmental Governance is not to be missed for anyone looking toward the future of environmental law."\ — Rosaleen O'Gara\ \ \
