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Product Identifiers
PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-100787960616
ISBN-139780787960612
eBay Product ID (ePID)2178358
Product Key Features
Number of Pages496 Pages
Publication NameTransboundary Environmental Negotiation : New Approaches to Global Cooperation
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
SubjectInternational Relations / General, Interpersonal Relations
TypeTextbook
AuthorWilliam Moomaw
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Psychology
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight46.9 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2002-023595
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal341.7/62
Table Of ContentIntroduction. About the Contributors. PART ONE: RESHAPING ATTITUDES: THE NEED TO RETHINK THE BASIS FORGLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION. 1. Defining the "Common Heritage of Mankind" (Ari Nathan). 2. All Commons Are Local: The Antarctic Treaty System as a RegionalModel for Effective Environmental Management (GianfrancoCorti). 3. International Environmental Negotiation: A Strategy for theSouth (Adil Najam). PART TWO: A SHIFTING CAST OF CHARACTERS: BEYOND THE STATE ASUNITARY ACTOR. 4. Voluntary Codes of Management: New Opportunities for IncreasedCorporate Accountability (Anne M. Weiss). 5. Science and Scientists in International EnvironmentalNegotiations (Laurent Renevier and Mark Henderson). 6. Science and Economics in Climate Change and Other InternationalEnvironmental Negotiations (Peter Zapfel). 7. Promoting North-South NGO Collaboration in EnvironmentalNegotiations: The Role of U.S. Foundations (Wendy GayVanasselt). 8. The Role of the Media in Environmental Issues: NewspaperCoverage in Four Countries (Anja Kollmuss). PART THREE: New Tools and Arrangements: Adding Elements to theTreaty-Making System. 9. Integrating Information Technology into Environmental TreatyMaking (Tobin L. Freid and Imke Wesseloh). 10. Enforcing International Environmental Treaties in DomesticLegal Systems (David W. Bowker and Michael Castellano). 11. Capacity-Building Strategies in Support of MultilateralEnvironmental Agreements (Heike Mainhardt). PART FOUR: POSSIBLE NEW TREATIES: UTILIZING THE ELEMENTS OF A NEWSYSTEM. 12. Global Treaty on Renewable Energy (Fredric A. Beck). 13. A Proposal for an Environmental Right-to-Know Convention:Negotiating the Barriers (John Harrison). 14. The Global Nitrogen Initiative: An Opportunity for SustainableDevelopment and Global Change (James F. Perkaus). 15. A Proposed International Framework Convention on BioinvasiveSpecies (Wendy M. Jastremski). 16. Harder than Physics: Negotiating an International Regime toLimit Transboundary Consequences of Nuclear Waste Disposal (MarcusDubois King). PART FIVE: GAUGING THE SUCCESS OF A MORE INTEGRATIVE SYSTEM. 17. Linking Human Rights and Environmental Quality (Kristi N.Rea). 18. The Potential for Environmental Contributions to Peace (MariaFariello Laux). Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.
SynopsisTransboundary Environmental Negotiation is an important collection of articles generated by faculty and graduate students at MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. The contributors emphasize the ways in which global environmental treaty-making can be improved. They highlight new environmental problems that pose difficult global negotiation challenges and suggest new strategies for involving a range of nongovernmental actors in ways that can overcome the obstacles to transboundary environmentalism., Transboundary Environmental Negotiation is an important collection of articles generated by faculty and graduate students at MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. The contributors emphasize the ways in which global environmental treaty-making can be improved., Transboundary Environmental Negotiation is an important collection of articles generated by faculty and graduate students at MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. The contributors emphasize the ways in which global environmental treaty-making can be improved. They highlight new environmental problems that pose difficult global negotiation challenges and suggest new strategies for involving a range of nongovernmental actors in ways that can overcome the obstacles to transboundary environmentalism. A definitive and cutting-edge resource on environmental negotiation Transboundary Environmental Negotiation : Includes a critique of the basic model of global environmental treaty-making Discusses the pros and cons of voluntary codes of management Examines the role of the media in framing international environmental problems Shows how to make information technology an integral part of environmental treaty-making Reviews global enforcement strategies linked to domestic legal systems Outlines capacity-building strategies of multilateral environmental agreements Shows how to link human rights and environmental quality Reveals the potential for environmental contributions to peace-making This landmark book will inspire advocates to push hard for new transboundary agreements on resource management, pollution reduction, and sustainable development needs.