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The global environment : institutions, law, and policy

Title
The global environment : institutions, law, and policy / edited by Regina S. Axelrod, David Leonard Downie, Norman J. Vig.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Axelrod, Regina S.
  • Downie, David Leonard.
  • Vig, Norman J.
Description
xx, 300 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Environmental law, International
  • Environmental policy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction : governing the international environment / Norman J. Vig -- 2. Global institutions and the environment : an evolutionary perspective / Marvin S. Soroos -- 3. Environmental protection in the twenty-first century : sustainable development and international law / Philippe Sands and Jacqueline Peel -- 4. Global environmental policy : governance through regimes / David Leonard Downie -- 5. The role of environmental NGOs in international regimes / John McCormick -- 6. Global climate change policy : making progress or spinning wheels? / Michele M. Betsill -- 7. Global policy for hazardous chemicals / David Leonard Downie, Johnathan Krueger and Henrik Selin -- 8. Economic integration and environmental protection / Daniel C. Esty -- 9. Compliance with global environmental policy / Michael Faure and Jurgen Lefevere -- 10. Understanding United States unilateralism : domestic sources of U.S. international environmental policy / Elizabeth R. DeSombre -- 11. The European Union as an environmental governance system / Regina S. Axelrod, Norman J. Vig and Miranda A. Schreurs -- 12. The view from the south : developing countries in global environmental politics / Adil Najam -- 13. Debating the dam : is China's Three Gorges project sustainable? / Lawrence R. Sullivan -- 14. Democracy and nuclear power in the Czech republic / Regina S. Axelrod.
ISBN
  • 156802827X (alk. paper)
  • 9781568028279 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004013762
OCLC
  • ocm55744531
  • SCSB-5081170
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries