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All serious environmental threats are now international in scope
and more than one thousand international environmental agreements
already exist. Yet the prospects for international cooperation
leading to the management of impacts on the planet remain grim. The
Global Environment meets the need for an authoritative assessment
of the state of international environmental institutions, laws and
policies at the end of the 20th century. The book examines
disagreements over the meaning of sustainable development, problems
inherent in implementing environmental policies and the conflict
over the exclusion of developing countries from the Kyoto Protocol.
It discusses the profound trade-offs that may be required, the role
of international financial interests in promoting incompatible
forms of development and analyses international environmental
institutions, law and policy and sustainable development.
All serious environmental threats are now international in scope
and more than one thousand international environmental agreements
already exist. Yet the prospects for international cooperation
leading to the management of impacts on the planet remain grim. The
Global Environment meets the need for an authoritative assessment
of the state of international environmental institutions, laws and
policies at the end of the 20th century. The book examines
disagreements over the meaning of sustainable development, problems
inherent in implementing environmental policies and the conflict
over the exclusion of developing countries from the Kyoto Protocol.
It discusses the profound trade-offs that may be required, the role
of international financial interests in promoting incompatible
forms of development and analyses international environmental
institutions, law and policy and sustainable development.
Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings
together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in
American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their
implications for the twenty-first century. Students will learn to
decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and
policy dilemmas that shape today's environmental politics. The
Eleventh Edition examines how policy has changed within federal
institutions and state and local governments, as well as how
environmental governance affects private sector policies and
practices. There are five new chapters in this edition that examine
the public's opinion on the environment, courts, energy policy,
natural resource agencies and policies, and the political economy
of green growth. The book has been updated to reflect the Trump
administration's four years of policy changes and students will
walk away with a measured, yet hopeful evaluation of the future
challenges that policymakers will confront as the American
environmental movement continues to affect the political process.
Environmental Policy brings together top scholars to evaluate
the changes and continuities in American environmental
policy since the late 1960s and help students think
critically about their implications for current policy.Â
Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings
together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in
American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their
implications for the twenty-first century. Students will learn to
decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and
policy dilemmas that shape today's environmental politics.
Parliaments and Technology explores an issue critically important
to the practice of democracy everywhere: how do citizens and
elected officials assess the opportunities and costs of new
technologies that may profoundly impact their societies' future?
For example, what are the social and moral implications of gene
patents, reproductive technology, cloning and genetic engineering
or of virtually unlimited access to information? Technology
assessment has become one of the most important methodologies for
aiding legislatures in analyzing and deliberating such questions.
The first comparative analysis of the development and practice
of parliamentary technology assessment in different national
settings, this book explains the origins, methods, and impacts in
five European countries -- Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and
the Netherlands -- and the European Parliament. It also provides a
theoretical framework for comparing the institutionalization of new
functions in different parliamentary systems and the influence of
national political cultures on the conceptualization and operation
of these new agencies.
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