Product Description: 'Since the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, analysts have focused on what national policy is capable of delivering by way of emission reductions, as that level has de facto become the international regime. This carefully constructed book is immensely useful in the way that it describes and explains the policy trajectories of seven of the world's largest emitters...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collaborative volume, the culmination of years of research, addresses the issue of why some attempts at solving or alleviating international environmental problems succeed while others fail. The volume combines analytical work on regime theories with case studies covering several topical issues: whaling, air pollution, the ozone layer, and land based sea pollution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)