Author

Contributions

  • Brown, Janet Welsh. - Contributor

Publication

1996 - Westview Press, Boulder, Colo, Colorado

Language

English

Word Count

59,500 words, Guess

Page Count

238 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing829109
  • Goodreads4343160

Classifications

  • DDC363.7/056
  • LCCGE170 .P67 1996

Description

"With a new case study on fisheries, a new chapter on improving compliance with international environmental regimes, and a new section on trade and environment, this classic work is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of international environmental politics on the market.". "In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualize key topics such as the 1992 Earth Summit, the Kyoto Protocol, international forest policy, and the trade and environmental nexus. Environmental concerns from global warming to ozone depletion to whaling are seen as challenges to transnational relations, with governments, NGOs IGOs, and MNCs all involved in the multilateral interaction that is necessary to solve growing global environmental problems."--BOOK JACKET.

Description

When Global Environmental Politics was first published, the environment was just emerging as a pivotal issue in traditional international relations. Now the environment is a topic central to discussions of security politics and the relationship between foreign and domestic policy - and so much has changed that Gareth Porter and Janet Welsh Brown found themselves rewriting more than half of their original text. With new cases on biodiversity and desertification, this classic work is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of environmental politics on the market. In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualize key topics such as the Rio conference, water security, the biodiversity treaty, and trade in toxics. Environmental concerns from global warming to the ozone layer to whaling are seen as challenges to transnational relations, with governments, NGOs, IGOS, and MNCs all facing the prospect of multilateral interaction to solve a growing global problem.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Dilemmas in world politics

Other Editions

  • Global environmental politicsWestview Press1996

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