Environmental Diplomacy Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements

by Susskind, Lawrence E.

• ISBN13: 9780195075939
• ISBN10: 0195075935
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-02-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Solutions to environmental problems require international cooperation, but global environmental treaty-making efforts, including the 1992 U.N.-sponsored Earth Summit in Brazil, have not accomplished much. International cooperation has been hampered by the conflicts between the developed nations of the North and the developing nations of the South; by the fact that science cannot accurately predict when or how environmental threats will materialize; and by the problem that the United Nations treaty-making system was never meant to handle threats to the environment.Lawrence Susskind looks at the weaknesses of the existing system of environmental treaty-making and the increasing role of non-governmental interests in environmental diplomacy. Environmental Diplomacy argues for "nearly self-enforcing" agreements that ensure compliance without threatening sovereignty and maintains that new institutional arrangements are within reach. Susskind builds on the work of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School and the International Environmental Negotiation Network to offer guidelines for more effective global agreements that provide for sustainable development.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
What is This Book About?	p. 3
the Weaknesses of the Existing Environmental Treaty-Making System	p. 11
Representation and Voting	p. 43
the Need for a Better Balance Between Science and Politics	p. 62
the Advantages and Disadvantages of Issue Linkage	p. 82
Monitoring and Enforcement in the Face of Sovereignty	p. 99
Reforming the System: the Salzburg Initiative and Other Proposals for Change	p. 122
Selected Global Environmental Treaties	p. 151
Declaration of the Right to Nature Conservation, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development	p. 176
Notes	p. 181
Selected Readings	p. 189
Index	p. 195
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