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Global Environmental Governance
Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies
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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 pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance regimes, and new forms of international cooperation.
Written by Gus Speth, one of the architects of the international environmental movement, and accomplished political scientist Peter M. Haas, 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. The book critically examines the serious shortcomings of current efforts and the underlying reasons why disturbing trends persist. It presents key concepts in international law and regime formation in simple, accessible language, and describes the current institutional landscape as well as lessons learned and new directions needed in international governance. Global Environmental Governance is a concise guide, with lists of key terms, study questions, and other features designed to help readers think about and understand the concepts discussed.
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 pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance regimes, and new forms of international cooperation.
Written by Gus Speth, one of the architects of the international environmental movement, and accomplished political scientist Peter M. Haas, 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. The book critically examines the serious shortcomings of current efforts and the underlying reasons why disturbing trends persist. It presents key concepts in international law and regime formation in simple, accessible language, and describes the current institutional landscape as well as lessons learned and new directions needed in international governance. Global Environmental Governance is a concise guide, with lists of key terms, study questions, and other features designed to help readers think about and understand the concepts discussed.
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Index
Accomplishment levels and treaty/ convention/protocol effectiveness
Acid rain:
biological diversity, loss of
China
creation of, explaining the
developing countries
effective international arrangements
Europe
linkages between environmental challenges
nitrogen, excess
transborder pollution problem
treaties/conventions/protocols, international
United Kingdom
Acropolis
Additionality principle
Adoption stage in treaty/convention/protocol process
Advocacy coalition stage in treaty/ convention/protocol process
Aerosol propellants and ozone depletion
Affluence and IPAT equation
Africa
Agenda 21,
Agriculture:
acid rain
deforestation
freshwater degradation/shortages
land degradation and desertification
methane
nitrogen, excess
subsidies, prices and
Air pollution, see also Climate change, global; Pollution
Alaska
Alcoa
Aldrin-dieldrin
Algal blooms
Alliance for a Responsible CFC Policy
Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible
Amazon rainforest
Amazon River
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Amphibians
Amu Darya River
Anchoveta, Peruvian
Anogenital distance
Antarctica
Anthropocentrism
Antiglobalization movement
Apollo 8,
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004)
Asia
see also China; Japan
Australia
Automobiles
Baltic Sea
Bangladesh
Bark beetles
Basel Convention (1989)
Beetles, bark
Benedick, Richard
Bhopal disaster (1984)
Billfish
Biodiversity:
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (2000)
civil society organizations/governance
climate change, global
Convention on Biological Diversity
dimensions to, three
ecosystem diversity
fishing/overfishing
habitats, destruction of aquatic/wetland
hotspots, protecting
invasive species, nonnative
Millennium Development Goals, UN
nitrogen, excess
overharvesting of plant/animal species
World Charter for Nature
Biodiversity and Conservation
Bioenvironmentalists
see also Future, visions/alternatives for the
Biogems campaign
Birds
Birth defects and persistent organic pollutants
Blair,Tony
Brazil
Bretton Woods institutions
see also World Bank
Britain
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
British Petroleum
Brundtland, Gro Harlem
Brundtland Commission (1987)
Burden of proof and the precautionary principle
Bush, George W.
Business Charter for Sustainable Development, ICCs
Business Council for Sustainable Development
Bycatch, fish discarded as
California and the automobile industry
Canada:
acid rain
chlorofluorocarbons
civil society organizations/governance
climate change, global
corporations
North American Free Trade Agreement
ozone
Cancer
Capacity-increasing transfers and visions/ alternatives for the future
Capitalism, natural
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Carson, Rachel
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (2000)
Cashore, Benjamin
Cattle
Center for a New American Dream
Certification, product
Cetaceans
Challenges, ten major global environmental:
acid rain
biological diversity, loss of
climate disruption
deforestation
drivers of deterioration, underlying
fisheries decline, marine
freshwater degradation/shortages
land degradation and desertification
linkages between ...
Table of contents
- About Island Press
- Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- I - Introduction:Toward Planetary Stewardship
- II - Global-Scale Environmental Challenges
- III - From Stockholm to Johannesburg: First Attempt at Global Environmental Governance
- IV - Environmental Accord: Treaties and International Environmental Law
- V - Key Actors, Expanding Roles: The United Nations, International Organizations, and Civil Society
- VI - Paths to the Future: A Second Attempt at Global Environmental Governance?
- Questions for Discussion
- References
- Further Reading
- Index
- Island Press Board of Directors