Regina S. Axelrod & Stacy D. VanDeveer 
The Global Environment [EPUB ebook] 
Institutions, Law, and Policy

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. 

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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

Index

O autorze

Stacy D. Van Deveer is professor of political science and chair of the department at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include global and regional environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, comparative environmental politics, the connections between environmental and security issues, the roles of expertise in policymaking and the geopolitics of resource consumption. In addition to authoring and coauthoring over 75 articles, book chapters, working papers, and reports, he is the coeditor of Saving the Seas (1997), EU Enlargement and the Environment (2005), Changing Climates in North American Politics (2009), Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics (2009), and Comparative Environmental Politics (2012), and co-author of forthcoming books on the European Union and the Environment and on Transnational Climate Change Governance.