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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Toward Planetary Stewardship | |
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| Stewardship Assignments: A Thought Experiment | |
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| The Real World: Only One Earth | |
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| Global-Scale Environmental Challenges | |
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| The Globalization of Environmental Threats | |
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| Ten Major Global Environmental Challenges | |
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| Acid Rain and Regional Air Pollution | |
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| Ozone Depletion | |
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| Climate Disruption | |
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| Deforestation | |
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| Land Degradation and Desertification | |
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| Freshwater Degradation and Shortages | |
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| Marine Fisheries Decline | |
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| Toxic Pollutants | |
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| Loss of Biological Diversity | |
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| Excess Nitrogen | |
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| Some Connections among the Issues | |
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| Underlying Drivers of Deterioration | |
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| From Stockholm to Johannesburg: First Attempt at Global Environmental Governance | |
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| The Stockholm Conference: Setting Out | |
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| Stockholm to Rio: Across New Frontiers | |
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| The Earth Summit: A Peak on the Journey | |
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| Rio to Johannesburg: A Zigzag Trail | |
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| The Johannesburg Summit: Too Steep an Incline | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Environmental Accord: Treaties and International Environmental Law | |
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| International Law and Collective Action: The Basics | |
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| The Ozone Layer Protection Regime: The Little Engine That Could | |
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| Problem Identification, Fact Finding, and Agenda Setting | |
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| Negotiation, Bargaining, and Agreement on Actions to Be Taken | |
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| Formal Adoption | |
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| Implementation, Monitoring, Assessment, and Strengthening | |
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| Treaty Regimes and the Other Major Global Environmental Threats | |
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| Will Climate Protection Be the Next Success? | |
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| Key Actors, Expanding Roles: The United Nations, International Organizations, and Civil Society | |
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| The United Nations System | |
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| Development Assistance and the Environment | |
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| The World Trade Organization, Environment, Trade, and Globalization | |
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| Civil Society and Governance without Governments | |
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| Paths to the Future: A Second Attempt at Global Environmental Governance? | |
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| Reformist Visions: How to Make the System Work Better | |
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| Cooperative Environment | |
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| Capacity | |
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| Concern | |
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| Reformist Visions: Major Innovations | |
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| A World Environment Organization | |
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| Opening the System to the Public | |
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| Global Issue Networks | |
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| Alternative Visions: How to Change the System | |
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| Addressing the Underlying Drivers: Beyond Dealing with Symptoms | |
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| Natural Capitalism: Beyond Blinkered Capitalism | |
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| Ecological Economics: Beyond Neoclassical Economics | |
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| Local Control: Beyond Corporate Globalization | |
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| Bottom-up Change: Beyond Global Governance | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |