The global environment : institutions, law, and policy
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The global environment : institutions, law, and policy
SAGE/CQ Press, c2020
5th ed
Available at 4 libraries
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  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
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Previous ed.: 2015
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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 book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
Table of Contents
Preface
Selected Acronyms in Global Environmental Policy
Global Environmental Policy: A Brief Chronology
Contributors
CHAPTER 1 * Governing the Global Environment
PART I * INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 2 * Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs: International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics
CHAPTER 3 * International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment
CHAPTER 4 * International Environmental Regimes and the Success of Global Ozone Policy
CHAPTER 5 * Compliance with Global Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases
PART II * BIG PLAYERS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKING
CHAPTER 6 * Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism
CHAPTER 7 * Promoting Environmental Protection in the European Union
CHAPTER 8 * How China's Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement
CHAPTER 9 * The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics
PART III * CASES, CONTROVERSIES, AND CHALLENGES
CHAPTER 10 * International Climate Change Policy: Complex Multilevel Governance
CHAPTER 11 * Global Politics and Policy on Hazardous Substances
CHAPTER 12 * Global Biodiversity Governance: Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems
CHAPTER 13 * Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance: From the Czech Republic to Fukushima
CHAPTER 14 * Free Trade and Environmental Protection
CHAPTER 15 * Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"