Global Accord

by Choucri, Nazli

• ISBN13: 9780262032001
• ISBN10: 0262032007
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-05-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Global Accord is the first holistic assault on a complex set of environmental issues. It provides a much-needed analytical framework for examining how individuals, groups, and nations create environmental dislocations, and how nations can work together to solve ecological problems that cross their borders. The fifteen essays cover theoretical and empirical dimensions, actors and processes, law and economics, and international institutions and systems. Effective management of global environmental problems may become the most significant institutional challenge for the twenty-first century. The purpose of this book - the first in a series of scholarly investigations of global environmental accord - is to develop an integrated approach to interactions between environmental and social systems, and between ecological and decision systems, in order to untangle the connections between human actions and environmental consequences and to improve prospects for concerted global responses to environmental problems. Each chapter highlights the importance of recognizing differences in perspectives and priorities among nations and of articulating norms for management of the global environment. Nazli Choucri is Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Technology and Development Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contributors: Hayward R. Alker, Jr. Garry D. Brewer. Abram Chayes. Nazli Choucri. Michael E. Colby. Peter M. Haas. Thomas F. HomerDixon. Robert C. North. Jerome Rothenberg. Francisco R. Sagasti. Eugene B. Skolnikoff. Maurice Strong. Jan Sungren. Edith Brown Weiss. Oran R. Young. David G. Victor.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Perspectives	p. 1
Theoretical and Empirical Dimensions	p. 41
Physical Dimensions of Global Change	p. 43
Growth, Development, and Environmental Sustainability: Profile and Paradox	p. 67
The Rise of Global Ecopolitics	p. 133
Actors and Processes	p. 173
Eco-Development Perspectives on Global Change from Developing Countries	p. 175
Multinational Corporations and the Global Environment	p. 205
Science and Technology: The Sources of Change	p. 255
Environmental Challenges and Managerial Responses: A Decision Perspective	p. 281
Economics and Law	p. 305
Economic Perspectives on Time Comparisons: An Evaluation of Time Discounting	p. 307
Intergenerational Equity: Toward an International Legal Framework	p. 333
Economic Perspectives on Time Comparisons: Alternative Approaches to Time Comparisons	p. 355
International Institutions and Systems	p. 399
Evolving International Environmental Law: Changing Practices of National Sovereignty	p. 401
Negotiating an International Climate Regime: The Institutional Bargaining for Environmental Governance	p. 431
Pragmatic Approaches to Regime Building for Complex International Problems	p. 453
Conclusion	p. 475
Global Accord: Imperatives for the Twenty-first Century	p. 477
Bibliography	p. 509
Index	p. 543
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