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Product Description: International Environmental Studies Series The three volumes of Environmental Policy in an International Context have been developed by the Dutch and British Open Universities. In this, the third volume, the authors investigate the opportunities for change in environmental policy-making at a global level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Policymakers should address climate change by developing a capacity to measure greenhouse gas emissions and to implement cost-effective ways of limiting emissions.

Product Description: Sovereign nations submit their domestic policies to international agreements and supranational institutions. This text warns that international regulation could distort the US constitutional system, and argues for reviving the traditional American view on international agreements and treaties...read more

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Topics covered: Environmental Management , Air and Water Management , Nature and Biodiversity Management , Economy, Society and Environment , Sectoral Integration: Energy , International Co-operation This book is part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Programme which conducts peer reviews of environmental conditions and progress in each member country...read more

Product Description: This book is part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews program that conducts peer reviews of environmental conditions and progress in each member country. The program scrutinizes efforts to meet both domestic objectives and international commitments...read more

Product Description: OECD's comprehensive review of Finland's environmental programs and policies covers air and water management, nature and biodiversity, sustainable development, the environment-economy interface, the environment-social interface, and international commitments...read more

Product Description: This publication examines the characteristics of successful transboundary resource management. Various cases of different shared resources, from water to fish to air, are described and their strengths and weaknesses analyzed. Successful management of transboundary resources is growing in relevance as resources become sparse and conflicts over them increase...read more

Global Environmental Politics is the perfect introduction to this increasingly significant area. The text combines an accessible introduction to the most important environmental theories and concepts with a series of detailed case studies of the most pressing environmental problems. Features and benefits of the book: Explains the most important concepts and theories in environmental politics. Introduces environmental politics within the context of political science and international relations theories. Demonstrates how the concepts and theories apply in a wide variety of real world contexts. Case studies include the most important environmental issues from climate change and biodiversity to forests and marine pollution. Each chapter is written by an established international authority in the field. This exciting new textbook is essential reading all students of environmental politics and will be of great interest to students of International Relations and Political Economy.

Product Description: International environmental regimes--institutional arrangements that govern human-environmental interactions--are dynamic, changing continuously over time. Some regimes go from strength to strength, becoming more effective over the years, while others seem stymied from the beginning...read more

Product Description: This timely book examines the role of environmental principles in changing international environmental law and politics, and argues for the importance of integrating environmental principles in the global governance of the environment...read more

Product Description: This is the second EPR of Georgia published by UNECE. The report takes stock of the progress made by Georgia in the management of its environment since the country was first reviewed in 2001. It assesses the implementation of the recommendations in the first review (Annex I)...read more

Product Description: Common wisdom holds that the earth's dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental degradation will inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly even set off "resource wars." Many scholars and policymakers have considered the environmental roots of violent conflict and instability, but little attention has been paid to the idea that scarcity and degradation may actually play a role in fostering inter-state cooperation...read more

Product Description: This report presents the OECD review of Portugal's environmental policy performance for 2011. It finds that environmental policies have been consolidated and strengthened since the last review in 2001, but that meeting the post-Kyoto targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be challenging...read more

Product Description: The global response to climate change has reached a critical juncture. Since the 1992 signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the nations of the world have attempted to address climate change through large-scale multilateral treaty-making...read more

Product Description: This report presents the third OECD review of Norway's environmental policy performance. Previous reviews were published in 2001 and 1993. Topics covered in this report include greening growth, implementation of environmental policies, international cooperation, climate change, waste management and the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), and nature and biodiversity...read more