This textbook is intended to be used in an upper-level international environmental issues class as part of the American Environmental Studies and Sciences book series. This class is commonly taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level as part of either an environmental studies program, a political science program, or within a policy track of an environmental science program.
Given the length of time that negotiations have occurred, a new generation of students and practitioners will need to understand the complex processes that produced many of our environmental treaties. The majority of the students in environmental studies do not have a background in political science. Moving from a political science approach to an interdisciplinary approach will benefit the students by making the material more accessible.
As these fields continue to grow and develop, regulatory compliance becomes increasingly important. Thus, this book is aimed at adding a business and industry perspective to this field where appropriate.
Author(s): Anne Egelston
Series: AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 257
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction to International Environmental Politics
1.1 The International State System and the UN
1.2 Organizing Themes
1.3 Purpose of the Book
References
2 International Environmental Diplomacy Begins
2.1 State of the Global Environment
2.2 The Conversation Begins
2.3 At Stockholm
2.4 After Stockholm, 1972
References
3 Institutionalizing UNEP
3.1 Establishing UNEP
3.2 UNEP Goes to Work
3.3 Catalyzing Cooperation
3.4 Forward March?
References
4 Oceans, Seas, and Whales
4.1 Tragedy of the Commons
4.2 Whaling
4.3 Law of the Seas
4.4 UNEP's Regional Seas
4.5 Regimes
References
5 Protecting the Ozone Layer
5.1 From Science to Vienna
5.2 From Vienna to Montreal
5.3 The Gold Standard of Treaties
5.4 New Models Emerge
5.5 What’s Next?
References
6 Regulating the Movement of Hazardous Waste
6.1 Hazardous Waste Laws Within the United States
6.2 Toward the Basel Convention
6.3 New Developments
6.4 International Environmental Justice
6.5 Two-Level Games
References
7 The Earth Summit and Its Aftermath
7.1 Organizing the Conference
7.2 The Earth Summit
7.3 The Earth Summit Legacy
References
8 Climate Change and Global Warming
8.1 The Science, the Skeptics, and the IPCC
8.2 The UNFCCC
8.3 The Kyoto Protocol
8.4 To Regime or Not to Regime
References
9 Conserving Biodiversity
9.1 Rationale for the Biodiversity Convention
9.2 The CBD
9.3 The CBD and TRIPS
9.4 The Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols
9.5 Analysis
References
10 Limiting Exposure to Toxic Chemicals
10.1 Limiting Exposure to Toxic Chemicals
10.2 Negotiating the Rotterdam Convention
10.3 Negotiating the Stockholm POPs Convention
10.4 The Hazardous Waste Regime
References
11 Implementing Goals and Targets for Sustainability
11.1 International Organizations
11.2 The Draft Emerges
11.3 All Important Implementation
11.4 Global Governance and the MDGs
References
12 The WSSD
12.1 Johannesburg
12.2 Why Do Conferences Fail?
References
13 Climate Change, Redux
13.1 COP 6bis and COP 7
13.2 The European Union’s Emission Trading Scheme
13.3 “Son of Kyoto”
13.4 The Bali Road Map to Copenhagen
13.5 From Copenhagen to Paris
13.6 Climate Scholarship
References
14 Transforming the World Through the 2030 ASD
14.1 Transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs
14.2 New Goals and Targets
14.3 Critiques, Changes, and Challenges
References
15 Conclusions
15.1 Does International Environmental Diplomacy Make a Difference?
15.2 Complexity, Change, and Continuity Revisited
15.3 The Future of Scholarship
15.4 Hope for the Future
References
Index
