The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy
ISBN: 9780470673249 | 0470673249
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 4/29/2013
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The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of international policy on climate and the environment. It brings together a global team of experts from the fields of environmental politics, international relations, economics, and law, who explore current debates and the latest thinking in the search for global environmental solutions. The volume reviews the key environmental challenges, concepts and approaches; the role of global actors, institutions and processes; and considers the li... MORE
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xiii
Part I Global Policy Challenges 1
1 Global Climate Change 3
Matthew J. Hoffmann
2 Global Water Governance 19
Joyeeta Gupta
3 Biodiversity and Conservation 37
Stuart Harrop
4 Marine Environment Protection 53
Markus Salomon
5 Deforestation 72
David Humphreys
6 Biotechnology and Biosafety 89
Aarti Gupta
7 Global Chemicals Politics and Policy 107
Henrik Selin
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8 Global Environmental Norms 127
Steven Bernstein
9 Global Governance 146
Johannes Stripple and Hannes Stephan
10 Global Environmental Security 163
Simon Dalby
11 International Environmental Law 179
Daniel Bodansky
12 Green Growth 197
Michael Jacobs
13 Sustainable Consumption 215
Doris Fuchs
14 Climate Change Justice 231
Edward Page
Part III Global Actors, Institutions, and Processes 249
15 The Nation-State, International Society, and the Global Environment 251
Robert Falkner
16 Transnational Environmental Activism 268
Susan Park
17 Business as a Global Actor 286
Jennifer Clapp and Jonas Meckling
18 International Regime Effectiveness 304
Steinar Andresen
19 Strengthening the United Nations 320
Steffen Bauer
20 International Negotiations 339
Radoslav S. Dimitrov
21 Regionalism and Environmental Governance 358
Miranda Schreurs
Part IV Global Economy and Policy 375
22 Globalization 377
Peter Newell
23 Private Regulation in Global Environmental Governance 394
Graeme Auld and Lars H. Gulbrandsen
24 International Trade, the Environment, and Climate Change 412
Nico Jaspers and Robert Falkner
25 Global Finance and the Environment 428
Christopher Wright
26 Energy Policy and Climate Change 446
Benjamin K. Sovacool
27 Economic Instruments for Climate Change 468
Jonas Meckling and Cameron Hepburn
28 International Aid and Adaptation to Climate Change 486
Jessica M. Ayers and Achala Chandani Abeysinghe
Index 507
Robert Falkner is Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds degrees in politics and economics from Munich University and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. He taught at Oxford, Kent and Essex universities before joining LSE and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is an associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE and of the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House. Falkner has published widely on global environmental politics, including Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (2008).
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