The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and PolicyNorman J. Vig, Regina S. Axelrod Earthscan, 1999 - 352 pages 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. |
Contents
Governing the International Environment | 1 |
International Institutions and Regimes | 27 |
The Role of Environmental NGOs | 52 |
The European Union as an Environmental | 72 |
International Environmental | 98 |
Compliance with International Environmental | 138 |
International Environmental Policies | 157 |
Economic Integration and the Environment | 190 |
Other editions - View all
The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy Norman J. Vig,Regina S. Axelrod Limited preview - 2023 |
Common terms and phrases
achieve action activities actors adopted Agenda 21 agreements areas assessment atmosphere binding carbon dioxide China climate change climate system Clinton Commission compliance conference consensus Convention cooperation Council Czech Republic decision developing countries Earth Summit ecological economic growth effective efforts energy enforcement envi Environment and Development environmental issues environmental policy environmental problems environmental protection Europe European Union example FCCC framework Fund future gas emissions gases global environmental goals greenhouse gas groups human Ibid impact implementation important increase Indonesia industry institutions integrated international environmental law international law international legal international organizations IPCC Kyoto Protocol major ment mental mining monitoring Montreal Protocol natural resources negotiations NGOs noncompliance nuclear obligations percent political pollution principles programs proposed reduce regimes regional regulation require responsibility role ronmental standards sustainable development target Temelin Three Gorges Dam tion tional trade UNEP United Nations University Press World Bank