Research Catalog

Title

• The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the struggle to slow global warming / David G. Victor.

Author

Victor, David G.

Publication

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2001.

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Description

xiv, 178 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Global warming continues to dominate environmental news as legislatures worldwide grapple with the process of ratification of the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The collapse of the November 2000 conference at the Hague showed clearly how difficult it will be to bring the Kyoto treaty into force. Yet most politicians, policymakers, and analysts hailed it as a vital first step in slowing greenhouse warming. David Victor was not among them. In this clear and cogent book, Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol is unlikely to enter into force and how its failure will offer the opportunity to establish a more realistic alternative."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Energy-Generating Resources
• Global warming > Government policy
• Greenhouse Effect
• Greenhouse gas mitigation > Government policy
• Public Policy
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1997 December 11

Note

• "A Council on Foreign Relations book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-171) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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

0691088705 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^00051633^

OCLC

45202121

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library