Defending the world : the politics and diplomacy of the environment
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Defending the world : the politics and diplomacy of the environment
I.B. Tauris, 1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [233]-234
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The plight of the environment requires the co-operation of all nations. This book looks at the problems that have to be overcome if workable agreements and solutions are to be reached.
Table of Contents
Introduction. 1. Setting the agenda. 2. Ideals and Realities. 3. Climatology, survival and Politics. 4. The Global Commons: the atmosphere. 5. The Global Commons: the oceans. 6. The Global Commons: Antarctica.. 7. The Global Commons: the tropical forests. 8. The ozone layer. 9. Climate change and agriculture: and a Soviet dissent. 10. Eco-politics: the greening of the greys. 11. The campaigners. 12. The uncertain politics of carbon dioxide. 13. Nuclear power: carbon-free but costly and feared. 14. The pioneering Netherlands: cows, cars and the Western world's age of mobility. 15. Cleaning up Eastern Europe. 16. 1992 and beyond. Explanatory notes. Select bibliography. Index.
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