The Global Environment: Institutions Law and Policy - Softcover

A timely collection of essays that analyse key issues, institutions, laws, and policies for the protection of the global environment. The new edition of this popular text provides crucial historical background on the development of global environmental organisations and treaties, engaging discussions of current and critical global environmental agreements, and insights into national and international implementation of sustainable development principles. Drawing together a distinguished list of international contributors, the book includes six brand new chapters on such important topics as regime theory, climate change, hazardous chemical controls, perspectives of the developing world, and the European Union's and United States' international environmental policies. All other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. The book includes a useful chronology of global environmental policy and a list of acronyms to help students in critical reading, review and study.

The Editors Regina S. Axelrod is professor of political science and chair of the political science department at Adelphi University and is the author of Environment, Energy, Public Policy: Toward a Rational Future and Conflict between Energy and Urban Environment. David Leonard Downie is Director of the Earth Institute Fellows Program at Columbia University and author of Northern Lights against POPs: Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic, co-edited with Terry Fenge. Norman J. Vig is Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus at Carleton College and author of Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union, coedited with Michael G. Faure (2004).