Global environmental institutions

Global Environmental Institutions

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-187

  DeSombre, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84911032976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203969342     Document Type: Book

References (24)

1. Regina S. Axelrod, David Leonard Downie, and Norman J. Vig, eds., The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2005). This edited volume has individual chapters on many of the institutions discussed here, as well as chapters that cover broader aspects of global environmental governance.
2. J. Samuel Barkin and George E. Shambaugh, eds., Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999). This volume lays out the theoretical implications of the issue structure of environmental problems, evaluating the arguments with cases from among the most prominent international environmental institutions.
3. Frank Biermann and Steffen Bauer, eds., A World Environment Organization (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005). A collection of the major scholarly arguments for and against a central institution to govern the global environment.
4. Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson, eds., Engaging Countries: Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998). This study examines five international agreements - CITES, the London (Dumping) Convention, the Montreal Protocol, the World Heritage Convention, and the International Tropical Timber Agreement - and looks at their implementation by a representative set of states and organizations worldwide: the United States, the European Union, Japan, the Soviet Union, Hungary and its successor states, China, India, Cameroon, and Brazil.
5. W. Bradnee Chambers and Jessica F. Green, eds., Reforming International Environmental Governance: From Institutional Limits to Innovative Reforms (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2005). Chapters by individual authors assess different ways - such as strengthening UNEP, clustering multilateral environmental agreements, creating a World Environment Organization, and others - to address the difficulties caused by the multiplicity of global environmental institutions.
6. Pamela S. Chasek, Earth Negotiations: Analyzing Thirty Years of Environmental Diplomacy (Tokyo, New York, and Paris: United Nations University Press, 2001). This volume considers the negotiations of the major environmental agreements negotiated between 1972 and 1992, as well as the context before and after this period.
7. Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown, Global Environmental Politics, 4th edn. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2006). This concise overview of the evolution of the international politics of the environment includes 11 case studies of environmental issues and the institutions negotiated to manage them.
8. Jennifer Clapp, Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001). Discusses the creation and evolution of the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal.
9. Michael Grubb, Matthias Koch, Abby Munson, Francis Sullivan, and Koy Thomson, The Earth Summit Agreements: A Guide and Assessment (London: Earthscan, 1993). The definitive overview of the agreements that came out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
10. Peter M. Haas, Robert O. Keohane, and Marc A. Levy, eds., Institutions for the Earth (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993). An early work considered essential in giving an overview of the negotiation of global institutions addressing ozone depletion, acid rain, pollution of regional seas, ocean pollution, fisheries management, and other emerging issues.
11. Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy, eds., Institutions for Environmental Aid (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996). Coverage of efforts to provide funding to address international environmental issues. Includes important discussion of the GEF and the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund.
12. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, vols. 1-5 (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005). This comprehensive assessment undertaken by more than 1300 scientists from nearly 100 states evaluates human impacts on the global (and local) environment.
13. Marian A. L. Miller, The Third World in Global Environmental Politics (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995). An early overview of the role of developing states in creating global environmental institutions, with a focus on ozone-layer protection, biodiversity conservation, and hazardous waste trade.
14. Edward A. Parson, Protecting the Ozone Layer: Science and Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). The essential source for everything relating to international efforts to protect the ozone layer.
15. Clyde Sanger, Ordering the Oceans: The Making of the Law of the Sea (London: Zed Books, 1986). An overview of the negotiations and results of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
16. The Social Learning Group, Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks, vols. 1 and 2 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001). An examination of the process of creating domestic and international action to address acid rain, ozone depletion, and climate change that traces the action from initial scientific studies and domestic responses across a variety of countries.
17. Mostafa K. Tolba, with Iwona Rummel-Bulska, Global Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating Environmental Agreements for the World, 1973-1992 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998). Tolba, the executive director of UNEP between 1976 and 1992, discusses the environmental issues negotiated during his time at UNEP.
18. David G. Victor, Kal Raustiala, and Eugene B. Skolnikoff, eds., The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998). This volume examines the processes by which global environmental institutions succeed (or fail) in holding states to their commitments and lead to environmental improvement.
19. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987). This report by the commission headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland assesses the relationship between environment and development, makes recommendations for improving the condition of both, and was influential in leading to the 1992 United Nations Convention on Environment and Development and other forms of global environmental governance.
20. IISD, Linkages: A Multimedia Resource for Environment and Development Policy Makers, available at http://www.iisd.ca/. An indispensable resource for reports on negotiations of ongoing meetings of international environmental agreements and the institutions they create; home of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
21. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), http://www.unep.org.
22. UNEP Regional Seas Programme, http://www.unep.org/regionalseas/.
23. Commission on Sustainable Development, http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/ csd.htm.
24. Millennium Development Goals, http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ index.html.