The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
Preface
Selected Acronyms in Global Environmental Policy
Global Environmental Policy: A Brief Chronology
Contributors
CHAPTER 1 • Governing the Global Environment
PART I • INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 2 • Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs: International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics
CHAPTER 3 • International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment
CHAPTER 4 • International Environmental Regimes and the Success of Global Ozone Policy
CHAPTER 5 • Compliance with Global Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases
PART II • BIG PLAYERS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKING
CHAPTER 6 • Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism
CHAPTER 7 • Promoting Environmental Protection in the European Union
CHAPTER 8 • How China's Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement
CHAPTER 9 • The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics
PART III • CASES, CONTROVERSIES, AND CHALLENGES
CHAPTER 10 • International Climate Change Policy: Complex Multilevel Governance
CHAPTER 11 • Global Politics and Policy on Hazardous Substances
CHAPTER 12 • Global Biodiversity Governance: Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems
CHAPTER 13 • Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance: From the Czech Republic to Fukushima
CHAPTER 14 • Free Trade and Environmental Protection
CHAPTER 15 • Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments
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