Environmental Diplomacy Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements

Name: Environmental Diplomacy Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements
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ISBN: 9780195075946

ISBN-10: 0195075943

ISBN-13: 9780195075946

Edition: 1994

Authors: Lawrence E. Susskind

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Solutions to environmental problems require international cooperation, but global environmental treaty-making efforts, including the 1992 U.N.-sponsored Earth Summit in Brazil, have not accomplished much. International cooperation has been hampered by the conflicts between the developed nations of the North and the developing nations of the South; by the fact that science cannot accurately predict when or how environmental threats will materialize; and by the problem that the United Nations treaty-making system was never meant to handle threats to the environment. Lawrence Susskind looks at the weaknesses of the existing system of environmental treaty-making and the increasing role of…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations



What is This Book About?



the Weaknesses of the Existing Environmental Treaty-Making System



Representation and Voting



the Need for a Better Balance Between Science and Politics



the Advantages and Disadvantages of Issue Linkage



Monitoring and Enforcement in the Face of Sovereignty



Reforming the System: the Salzburg Initiative and Other Proposals for Change



Selected Global Environmental Treaties



Declaration of the Right to Nature Conservation, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development


Notes


Selected Readings


Index