International relations and global climate change
This book surveys current conceptual, theoretical, and methodological approaches to global climate change and international relations. Although it focuses on the role of states, it also examines the role of nonstate actors and international organizations whenever state-centric explanations are insufficient. The book begins with a discussion of environmental constraints on human activities, the environmental consequences of human activities, and the history of global climate change cooperation. It then moves to an analysis of the global climate regime from various conceptual and theoretical perspectives. These include realism and neorealism, historical materialism, neoliberal institutionalism and regime theory, and epistemic community and cognitive approaches. Stressing the role of nonstate actors, the book looks at the importance of the domestic-international relationship in negotiations on climate change. It then looks at game-theoretical and simulation approaches to the politics of global climate change. It emphasizes questions of equity and the legal difficulties of implementing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It concludes with a discussion of global climate change and other aspects of international relations, including other global environmental accords and world trade. The book also contains Internet references to major relevant documents
1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : illustrations.
9780262278669, 9780585445267, 9780262621496, 0262278669, 0585445265, 0262621495
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Problems of global environmental cooperation / Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz
The history of the global climate change regime / Daniel Bodansky
Classical theories of international relations / Ian H. Rowlands
Domestic politics and global climate policy / Detlef F. Sprinz and Martin Weiss
Nonstate actors in the global climate regime / Kal Raustiala
Principles of justice in the context of global climate change / Matthew Paterson
Climate change, equity, and international negotiations / Ellen Wiegandt
Modeling global climate negotiations / Frank Grundig, Hugh Ward, and Ethan P. Zorick
Simulation models, global environmental change, and policy / Urs Luterbacher
International law and the design of a climate change regime / Daniel Bodansky
Institutional aspects of implementation, compliance, and effectiveness / Ronald B. Mitchell
Comparing the global climate regime with other global environmental accords / Detlef F. Sprinz
The organization of world trade and the climate regime / Urs Luterbacher and Carla Norrlöf
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