The global environment : institutions, law, and policy
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The global environment : institutions, law, and policy
SAGE/CQ Press, c2015
4th ed
- : pbk
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Includes index
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Description
The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The volume has been reorganized to better highlight global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes an expanded set of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption. Based on reviewer feedback from faculty and students, the new edition broadens coverage of the growing global environmental agenda and explores the relationships between states, NGOs, and international organizations.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Governing the Global Environment - Regina S. Axelrod and Stacy D. VanDeveer
Part I. International Environmental Actors and Institutions
2. Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs: International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics - Kate O'Neill
3. International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment - Jacqueline Peel
4. International Environmental Regimes and the Success of Global Ozone Policy - David Leonard Downie
5. Compliance with Global Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases - Michael G. Faure and Jurgen Lefevere
Part II. Big Players in Global Environmental Policymaking
6. Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism - Elizabeth R. DeSombre
7. Environmental Policy Making and Global Leadership in the European Union - Regina S. Axelrod and Miranda A. Schreurs
8. Energy and Environment in China: National and Global Challenges - Joanna I. Lewis and Kelly Sims Gallagher
9. The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics - Adil Najam
Part III. Cases, Controversies, and Challenges
10. International Climate Change Policy: Complex Multilevel Governance - Michele M. Betsill
11. Global Politics and Policy on Hazardous Chemicals - Henrik Selin
12. Global Biodiversity Governance: Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems - G. Kristin Rosendal
13. Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance: From the Czech Republic to Fukushima - Regina S. Axelrod
14. Free Trade and Environmental Protection - Daniel C. Esty
15. Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments - Stacy D. VanDeveer
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