Author: Norman J Vig
Regina S Axelrod/
Publisher: Earthscan Publications
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN/UPC (if available): 185383646X
Description
The Global Environment is designed to meet the need for an authoritative assessment of the state of international environmental institutions, laws, and policies at the end of the twentieth century. Editors Norman J. Vig and Regina S. Axelrod bring together distinguished American and European scholars who span the traditional boundaries between political science, international relations, international law, policy studies, and comparative politics to address the enormous complexities of global environmental problems in the next century. Their analyses on the broad subjects of international environmental institutions, law, and policy, as well as sustainable development, help explain where the earth’s physical and biological systems stand today and what we may expect in the future.
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Governing the International Environment
Norman J. Vig
I - INTERNATIONAL INSTITUIONS AND REGIMES
Global Institutions and the Environment
Marvin S. Soroos
The Role of Environmental NGOs
In International Regimes
John McCormick
The EU as an Environmental
Governance system
Regina S. Axelrod and Norman J. Vig
II - INTERNATIONAL ENVIOUNMENTAL LAW
The Emerging Structure of
International Environmental Law
Edith Brown Weiss
Environmental Protection in the 21st Century
Philippe Sands
Compliance with International Environmental
Agreements
Michael Faure and Jurgen Lefevere
III – INTERNATIONAL ENVIORONMENTAL PLOICIES
AND IMLEMENTATION
Agenda 21 - Myth or Reality?
Gary C. Bryner
Economic Integration and the Environment
Daniel C.Esty
The UN Climate change Agreements
Michael R. Molitor
Lapsed Leadership: US International Environmental
Policy since Rio
Robert L Paarlberg
IV – SUSTANABLE DEVELOPMENT: NATIONAL CASE
AND CONTROVERSISES
The Dutch National Plan for Sustainable Society
Duncan Liefferink
Democracy and Nuclear Power in the Czech Republic
Regina S. Axelrod
The Three Gorges Dam and the Issue of
Sustainable Development in China
Lawrence R Sullivan
Mining, Environmental Protection and
Sustainable Development
Richard O.Miller.
Index