All serious environmental threats are now international in scope and more than one thousand international environmental agreements already exist. Yet the prospects for international cooperation leading to the management of impacts on the planet remain grim. The Global Environment meets the need for an authoritative assessment of the state of international environmental institutions, laws and policies at the end of the 20th century.
The book examines disagreements over the meaning of sustainable development, problems inherent in implementing environmental policies and the conflict over the exclusion of developing countries from the Kyoto Protocol. It discusses the profound trade-offs that may be required, the role of international financial interests in promoting incompatible forms of development and analyses international environmental institutions, law and policy and sustainable development.
Author(s): Norman J. Vig, Regina S. Axelrod
Publisher: Routledge/Earthscan
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 368
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
1: Introduction: Governing the International Environment
I: International Institutions and Regimes
2: Global Institutions and the Environment: An Evolutionary Perspective
3: The Role of Environmental NGOs in International Regimes
4: The European Union as an Environmental Governance System
II: International Environmental Law
5: The Emerging Structure of International Environmental Law
6: Environmental Protection in the Twenty-First Century: Sustainable Development and International Law
7: Compliance with International Environmental Agreements
III: International Environmental Policies and Implementation
8: Agenda 21: Myth or Reality?
9: Economic Integration and the Environment
10: The United Nations Climate Change Agreements
11: Lapsed Leadership: U.S: International Environmental Policy Since Rio
IV: Sustainable Development: National Cases and Controversies
12: The Dutch National Plan for Sustainable Society
13: Democracy and Nuclear Power in the Czech Republic
14: The Three Gorges Dam and the Issue of Sustainable Development in China
15: Mining, Environmental Protection, and Sustainable Development in Indonesia
Index
