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International environmental threats have commanded widespread
attention since the late 1960s. A number of environmental disasters
have galvanized public concern, and have reached the international
political agenda following the emergence of environmental social
movements in the industrialized countries. current concern with
globalization. The international environmental politics literature
anticipated many of the descriptive features of globalization and
the themes commonly used to analyze the political and economic
forces associated with globalization. courses and analysts in
international environmental politics and globalization. The editor
has selected those previously published articles which are seminal
in the development of this new field and which have either
generated widespread debate or represent a clear application of
major approaches to the understanding of these new issues. He has
also provided an authoritative introduction to complement his
selection.
The experience of environmental governance is approached in
Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique
perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors,
which are areas of emerging importance. The chapters look at
existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and the
broader constellation of partially networked institutions to better
understand the involvement of individual actors and how to deepen
the networks that include them to generate more effective
governance. The book covers a wide range of issued pertaining to
environmental governance including trans-boundary air pollution,
marine pollution, biodiversity and ozone depletion. It also
examines partnerships as a hybrid case of emerging modes of
environmental governance. These partnerships are a recent form of
actor configuration that warrant attention for dealing with global
environmental threats in order to better understand the full
potential of actor configurations in the absence of state
involvement. In order to test applicability to on-going but stalled
processes, the book applies the approach to one of the most
difficult issues we face: climate change. By addressing key
questions in this important area, the book provides new
perspectives in the nexus between agency and architecture in
environmental governance in the twenty-first century.
The experience of environmental governance is approached in
Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique
perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors,
which are areas of emerging importance. The chapters look at
existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and the
broader constellation of partially networked institutions to better
understand the involvement of individual actors and how to deepen
the networks that include them to generate more effective
governance. The book covers a wide range of issued pertaining to
environmental governance including trans-boundary air pollution,
marine pollution, biodiversity and ozone depletion. It also
examines partnerships as a hybrid case of emerging modes of
environmental governance. These partnerships are a recent form of
actor configuration that warrant attention for dealing with global
environmental threats in order to better understand the full
potential of actor configurations in the absence of state
involvement. In order to test applicability to on-going but stalled
processes, the book applies the approach to one of the most
difficult issues we face: climate change. By addressing key
questions in this important area, the book provides new
perspectives in the nexus between agency and architecture in
environmental governance in the twenty-first century.
The increasing complexity of the world's problems has escalated
both the need for international policy co-ordination and the
difficulty of achieving it. With that in mind, the contributors to
this volume assess what happens to the distribution of power when
policymakers rely on the counsel of technical experts to make
decisions of international importance. Because the way states
identify and respond to problems depends not only on how
policymakers understand the issues but also on how the issues are
represented by their advisers, the contributors examine the growing
role that epistemic communities play in several areas: facilitating
governmental learning; articulating the cause-and-effect
relationships of global problems; helping to discern state
interests; framing the issues for collective debate; proposing
specific policies; and identifying salient points for international
negotiation.
Can environmental institutions be effective at bringing about a
healthier environment? How? Institutions for the Earth takes a
close look at the factors influencing organized responses to seven
international environmental problems - oil pollution from tankers,
acid rain in Europe, stratospheric ozone depletion, pollution of
the North Sea and Baltic, mismanagement of fisheries,
overpopulation, and misuses of farm chemicals to determine the
roles that environmental institutions have played in attempting to
solve them. Through rigorous, systematic comparison, it reveals
common patterns that can lead to improvements in the collective
management of these problems and suggests ways in which
international institutions can further the case of environmental
protection.The contributors identify three major functions
performed by effective international environmental institutions:
building national capacity, improving the contractual environment,
and elevating governmental concern. The international organizations
analyzed within this framework include the United Nations
Environment Program, the Intergovernmental Maritime Organization,
the Food and Agriculture Organization, numerous fisheries
commissions, the Commission for Europe, theOslo and Paris
Commissions, the Helsinki Commission, and the United Nations Fund
for Population Assistance.Peter M. Haas is Associate Professor of
Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Robert 0. Keohane is Stanfield Professor of International Peace at
Harvard University. Marc A. Levy is Assistant Professor of Politics
and International Affairs at Princeton University and Associate at
Harvard's Center for International Affairs.
International Environmental Governance reviews the contentious
approaches to addressing global and transboundary environmental
threats. The volume collects together the most influential and
important literature on the major political approaches to dealing
with these problems, their histories, major debates, and research
frontiers. It is accompanied by a substantial introduction which
reviews the evolution of the academic contribution to environmental
governance, focusing on a wide array of international environmental
problems.
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