International Environmental Governance

by Haas,Peter M.; Haas,Peter M.

• ISBN13: 9780754625612
• ISBN10: 0754625613
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume collects together the most influential and important literature on the major political approaches to dealing with global and transboundary environmental threats, their histories, major debates, and research frontiers. It is accompanied by a substantial introduction which reviews the evolution of the academic contribution to environmental governance, focusing on a wide array of international environmental problems.

Table of Contents

Introduction

History of Environmental Governance

Methods to expedite environmental protection: international ecostandards, Paolo Contini

One year after Stockholm: an ecological approach to management

Nature of Environmental Governance Problem

The tragedy of the commons

The struggle to govern the commons: tragedy of the commons

The environmental information needs of the decision-maker

Realism and Power Politics

The management of international affairs

Institutional Bargaining

The politics of international regime formation: managing natural resources and the environment

Institutions for the earth: promoting international environmental protection

The interest-based explanation of international environmental policy

Constructing effective environmental regimes

Scientific Governance, Learning to learn

The role of science in environmental regimes: the case of LRTAP

Conclusions:patterns of regime effectiveness

Private Governance

Private environmental governance and international relations: exploring the links

Bargains old and new: multinational corporations in global governance

Talking with the donkey: cooperative approaches to environmental protection

Legitimacy and the privatization of environmental governance: how non-state market-driven (NSMD) governance systems gain rule-making authority

Green by choice? Cross-national variations in firms' responses to EMS-based environmental regimes

The privatization of global environmental governance: ISO 14000 and the developing world

Civil Society

Politics beyond the state: environmental activism and world civic politics

NGO influence in international environmental negotiations: a framework for analysis

A comparative look at NGO influence in international environmental negotiations: desertification and climate change

Networked Governance

Addressing the global governance deficit

Institutional interactions: the structure of regimes for trade and the environment

Reconstituting the global public domain - issues, actors and practices

Name index

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This volume collects together the most influential and important literature on the major political approaches to dealing with global and transboundary environmental threats, their histories, major debates, and research frontiers. It is accompanied by a substantial introduction which reviews the evolution of the academic contribution to environmental governance, focusing on a wide array of international environmental problems.