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The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the struggle to slow global warming

Title
The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the struggle to slow global warming / David G. Victor ; with a new afterword by the author.
Author
Victor, David G.
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001, 2004.

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xiv, 203 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"In this book - reissued in paperback with an afterword that comments on recent events - David Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument and explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative." "Individuals at all levels of environmental science, economics, public policy, and politics - from students to professionals - and anyone else hoping to participate in the debate over how to slow global warming will want to read this book."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1997 December 11)
  • Global warming > Government policy
  • Greenhouse gas mitigation > Government policy
Note
  • "A council on foreign relations book"--T.p.
  • First paperback printing, with a new afterword and an updated preface, 2004.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Crisis and opportunity -- Ch. 2. Kyoto's fantasyland : allocating the atmosphere -- Ch. 3. Monitoring and enforcement -- Ch. 4. Rethinking the architecture -- Ch. 5. After Kyoto : what next? -- App. The causes and effects of global warming : a brief survey of the science.
ISBN
0691120269 (paperback)
OCLC
  • ocm56346246
  • SCSB-5067693
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries