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• Sovereign states and the international regimes-- non-governmental organizations and environmental policices-- business and environmental policies-- international trade and environmental policies-- international co-operation - the European Union-- the scope for north-south co-operation-- implementing international environmental policices-- policy scenarios for sustainable development-- environment and society - shaping and future.
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This volume examines the environmental issues currently under debate in the international arena. The text approaches the topic at a conceptual level, and from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. It analyses the roles of key players in environmental policy, the nation state, non-governmental organizations and the business community. It continues with an examination of the importance of international relations (trade, east, west, north, south), and goes on to consider the prospects for sustainable development and social changes required for sustainable development to become a reality.
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Using agro-environmental policy development in France, the United States, and Canada as a case study, Eric Montpetit sets out to investigate the validity of citizens of industrialized countries mistrust through careful attention to the policy-making performance of the relevant policy networks.
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Citizens of industrialized countries largely share a sense that national and international governance is inadequate, believing not only that public authorities are incapable of making the right policy decisions, but also that the entire network of state and civil society actors responsible for the discussion, negotiation, and implementation of policy choices is untrustworthy. Using agro-environmental policy development in France, the United States, and Canada as case studies, Eric Montpetit sets out to investigate the validity of this distrust through careful attention to the performance of the relevant policy networks. He concludes that distrust in policy networks is, for the most part, misplaced because high levels of performance by policy networks are more common than many political analysts and citizens expect. Opposing the tenets of state retrenchment, his study reveals that providing participation in governance to resourceful interest groups and strong government bureaucracies is an essential component of sound environmental policies for agriculture. A timely contribution to the good governance debate, this book should be required reading for policymakers and politicians, as well as students and scholars of public policy, political science, environmental studies, and government.
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• The greening of sovereignty - an introduction.
• Part 1 Theoretical tensions: between sovereignty and environment - an exploration of the discourse of government, Thom Kuehls-- taking indigenous critiques seriously - the enemny "r" us, Franke Wilmer-- sovereignty and ecosystem management - clash of concepts and boundaries?, Veronica ward-- the nature of sovereignty and the sovereignty of nature - problematizing the boundaries between self, society, state and system, Ronnie D. Lipschutz.
• Part 2 Reconfiguring sovereignty - case studies: forms of discourse/norms of sovereignty - interests, science and morality in the regulation of whaling, Ronald B. Mitchell-- sovereignty reconfigured -environmental regimes and Third World states, Marian A.L. Miller-- satellites and sovereign knowledge - remote sensing of the global environment, Karen T. Liftin-- sovereignty, environment and subsidiary in the European Union, Joseph Henri Jupille.
• Part 3 Revisioning sovereignty: eco-cultural security and indigenous self-determination - moving toward a new conception of sovereignty, Sheldon Kamieniecki and Margaret Scully Granzeier-- reorienting state sovereignty - rights and responsibilities in the environmental age, Paul Wapner-- global village sovereignty -intergenerational sovereign publics, federal-republican earth constitutions and planetary identities, Daniel Deudney.
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Runner-up, 1998 Harold & Margaret Sprout Award given by the International Studies Association.
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This is the first book to connect two important subfields in international relations: global environmental politics and the study of sovereignty--the state's exclusive authority within its territorial boundaries. The authors argue that the relationship between environmental practices and sovereignty is by no means straightforward and in fact elucidates some of the core issues and challenges in world politics today.Although a number of international relations scholars have assumed that transnational environmental organizations and institutions are eroding sovereignty, this book makes the case that ecological integrity and state sovereignty are not necessarily in opposition. It shows that the norms of sovereignty are now shifting in the face of attempts to cope with ecological destruction, but that this "greening" of sovereignty is an uneven, variegated, and highly contested process. By establishing that sovereignty is a socially constructed institution that varies according to time and place, with multiple meanings and changing practices, The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics illuminates the complexity of the relationship between sovereignty and environmental matters and casts both in a new light.Contributors : Daniel Deudney, Margaret Scully Granzeier, Joseph Henri Jupille, Sheldon Kamieniecki, Thom Kuehls, Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Karen T. Litfin, Marian A. L. Miller, Ronald B. Mitchell, Paul Wapner, Veronica Ward, Franke Wilmer.
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This work focuses on the character and significance of the politics and processes that underlie policy-making on the environment. The second edition has been redesigned to reflect major trends and changes in environmental policy during the 1990s such as the effects of budgetary restraints on environmntal policy and the growing importance of the provinces as environmental policy actors.
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• List of Acronyms Preface Acknowledgments
• 1. Planetary Anxiety and Collective Dilemmas Sovereignty, Global Governance, and Public Goods Shades of Green The Crosscutting Dilemma: Our Growing Numbers Delving Deeper into Global Ecopolitics
• 2. International Arrangements: Actors and Effectiveness Multi-scaled Adaptive Governance Individuals and Communities Governments and Governance International Law and Institutions Wicked Problems: Measuring Effectiveness in International Arrangements
• 3. Conserving Biodiversity and Wildlife Rising Concerns: The Historical Context The Convention on Biological Diversity The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna Redefining the Wealth
• 4. Deforestation and Land Degradation Deforestation The International Tropical Timber Agreement Desertification The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Taking Root
• 5. Air Pollution and Climate Change Atmospheric Pollution The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) The Ozone Layer Arrangement The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Deep Breaths
• 6. Blue Peril: Oceans and Rivers The Poles The Oceans Crises UNCLOS Freshwater Scarcity The Veins of Life: Shared River Arrangements Surviving the Tides
• 7. Trade and the Global Environment Toxic Trade The Basel Convention on Trade in Hazardous Substances The WTO and the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Toward Ethical Investments
• 8. War and Peace and Justice Ecocide: The Circle of Death The Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) Toward Environmental Justice and Human Security
• 9. Another Convention Needed? Invasive Alien Species Invasive Alien Species: The Problem(s) Regional Efforts Toward an International Convention on IAS?
• 10. Governance Gaps and Green Goals Nanotechnology Global Tourism Food Security A Global Energy Strategy? From Angst to Resolve Afterword: What Can You Do? References Index.
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Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather, international conventions on climate change, or special UN days, rarely do we participate in a sustained analysis of environmental policy making. To remedy this shortcoming and to propel the discussion forward, Peter J. Stoett provides a concise introduction to environmental governance. Through seven case studies, Stoett analyzes the ability of international policy to provide environmental protection and discusses the ever-present factors of equality, sovereignty, and human rights integral to these issues. While providing a panoramic view of the actors and structures producing these policies, Stoett reminds readers that the topic is personal, that responsible governance is not solely the charge of governments but of individuals and communities as well.
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• Introduction
• Theories of policy and institutional change
• Explaining changes in environmental policies and institutions in emerging market democracies
• Research design and the measurement of change
• Descriptive analysis of policy and institutional change
• Economy, politics, institutions, or demand? : a causal analysis of change
• Case studies on changing regulation of genetically modified maize
• Stability and change in emerging market democracies : concluding remarks.

This book examines environmental policy change in twenty-eight Central and Eastern European and Latin American countries against a background of significant political and economic transformation over the past two decades. Through cross-regional comparison and a multi-methods approach, Jale Tosun investigates changes in the regulation of air, soil, and water pollution, genetically modified corn, and the sustainable management of forests. Tosun also looks at the relationship between system transformation and the creation of environmental procuracies in both parts of the world. Environmental Policy Change in Emerging Market Democracies demonstrates that, although political and economic transformations have positively affected environmental policy in both regions, the extent of policy change varies considerably across Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. At the same time, as Tosun argues, economic integration has acted as a major driver of a stronger governmental enforcement commitment as expressed by the creation of environmental procuracies.
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• Introduction.
• 1. Environmental Governance and NGOs: An Introduction to China
• 2. Analysing Chinese Environmental Movement Networks
• 3. Environmental Activism in Panjin, Liaoning Province
• 4. Environmental Activism in Beijing
• 5. Environmental Activism in Xiangfan, Hubei Province
• 6. Environmental Activism in Shanghai
• 7. Comparison and Conclusions.
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Major environmental degradation is a serious problem for China as the country's economy continues to grow at a phenomenal pace. In recent years environmental organizations have begun to emerge in China, and in some cases have had remarkable success in affecting policies which would have had significant adverse impacts on the environment. This book, based on extensive original research, adopts a multi-disciplinary research approach to examine environmental activism in China, focusing on four cities. It analyzes the nature, characteristics, strategies, organizational modes and influence of what could be labeled a Chinese environmental movement in-the-making. In particular, this volume highlights the specificities of Chinese environmental activism in an increasingly globalizing world, along with a comparison to the environmental movement in Western Europe and North America.
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• *Science and Value. *Science and truth. *The Limits and Assumptions of Science. *Science and society-- Future Risks. *Genetic Engineering. *Climate change. *The conservation of Wildlife and Ecosystems. *Why Does Fishery Management Fail so Often? *Disposal of the Brent Spar. *Coastal Zone Pollution and Eutrophication. *Radioactive Waste and Radiological Protection. *Illustrations. *Competing Titles.
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Science is vital in informing the increasingly urgent and complex environmental decisions that affect all our lives, from international agreements on action to limit climate change to decisions on growing genetically modified crops. It is clear, however, that many environmental decisions are taken in the face of scientific uncertainty or ignorance, and involve questions of politics and ethics that go beyond science. Science alone cannot answers such questions as "Are the risks of nuclear power acceptable?" and "Why should we conserve wild species?" Science and Environmental Decision Making explores the use and limitations of science in helping to answer environmental questions, emphasising the importance of ethics, politics and sociology in the decision making process. Starting with the question "What is meant by a scientific explanation?", the first three chapters provide a simple introduction to the philosophy and sociology of science and the importance of these fields to environmental scientists. They explain the logic of testing ideas in science and look at some of the absolute limits of scientific explanation, showing how value judgements inevitably influence scientific work, before exploring commercial and political influences on science. Chapters 4-10 show how these themes are relevant in case studies ranging from genetic engineering in agriculture to conservation, marine eutrophication and the use of models, and radiation protection. Each chapter is written by a researcher active in the area and begins with an editorial introduction highlighting the major themes illustrated by the case study. This book is aimed at students of ecology, environmental science, environmental management and geography. It will also be useful reading for sociology students who study how the science is applied.
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Are we on the verge of a global environmental catastrophe, or is a modest revision of environmental policy all that is necessary to ensure our safety and prosperity? Governing the Environment considers both scenarios, and those between the two extremes, in its examination of current trends and challenges in managing environmental issues. This collection of seven essays, authored by leading Canadian academics, examines different aspects of the relationship between government and environmental issues. The volume focuses on Canadian contributions and innovations in the field, but it is of relevance to audiences around the world. Parson's introductory essay sets the stage for the complex discussions to follow. He provides background by sketching the Canadian institutional context for environmental protection: by describing the major pollutant burdens and the state of natural resources, and by summarizing the most salient policy issues. His conclusion elaborates on four major themes emerging from the work. These are the achievement of 'adaptive management'; the challenge of building effective government and interjurisdictional capacities for managing the environment; the need for networks to share responsibility more effectively without overlapping tasks; and finally, the real challenge to state authority that these undertakings represent. This work is written for a multidisciplinary academic audience, encompassing students and teachers of advanced environmental studies and Canadian public policy.
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• Canadian natural resource and environmental policy: issues and approaches
• The socioeconomic context: Canadian resource industries and the postwar Canadian political economy
• The institutional context: the Canadian constitution, aboriginal rights, and international agreements affecting resources and the environment
• The resource and environment policy process: an analytical framework
• Agenda setting: the role of the public in resource and environmental policy formation
• Policy formulation: identifying the Canadian resource and environmental policy subsystem
• Decision-making: the politics of Canadian resource and environmental policy
• Policy implementation: the administration of Canadian resource and environmental policy
• Policy evaluation: the political, administrative, and judicial assessment of Canadian resource and environmental policy
• Conclusion: the future of the Canadian resource and environmental policy paradigm.

In this new and updated edition, the authors once again examine policy making in one of the most significant areas of activity in the Canadian economy - natural resources and the environment - and discuss the evolution of resource policies from the early era of exploitation to the present era of resource and environmental management. Using an integrated political economy and policy perspective, the book provides an analytic framework from which the foundation of ideological perspectives, administrative structures, and substantive issues are explored. Departing from traditional approaches that emphasize a single discipline or perspective, it offers an interdisciplinary framework with which to think through ecological, political, economic, and social issues. It also provides a multi-stage analysis of policy making from agenda setting through the evaluation process. The integration of social science perspectives and the combination of theoretical and empirical work make this innovative book one of the most comprehensive analyses of Canadian natural resource and environmental policy to date. Its illumination of the key elements of government policy making in this critical sector and its new outline of the evolution of the Kyoto Protocol makes it a useful textbook and resource for students of environmental and public policy, policy makers, and environmental organizations.
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• Environmental administration: revising the agenda of inquiry and practice / Douglas Togerson and Robert Paehlke
• Obsolescent leviathan: problems of order in administrative thought / Douglas Togerson
• Democracy and environmentalism: opening a door to the administrative state? / Robert Paehlke
• Ecological reason in administration: environmental impact assessment and green politics / Robert V. Bartlett
• Environmental regulation and risk-benefit analysis: from technical to deliberative policy making / Frank Fischer
• Designs for environmental discourse revisited: a greener administrative state? / John S. Dryzek
• The ambivalence of discourse: beyond the administrative mind? / Douglas Togerson
• Class, place, and citizenship: the changing dynamics of environmental protection / Ted Schrecker
• We just don't know: lessons about complexity and uncertainty in Canadian environmental politics / Robert B. Gibson
• Environmental politics and policy professionalism: agenda setting, problem definition, and epistemology / Douglas Togerson
• Depoliticizing environmental politics: sustainable development in Norway / Ingerid S. Straume
• Democratic deliberation and environmental policy: opportunities and barriers in Britain / Graham Smith
• Outside the state: Australian green politics and the public inquiry into Uranium / Timothy Doyle
• Participation and agency: hybrid identities in the European quest for sustainable development / Andrew Jamison
• Responses to environmental threats in an age of globalization / Jennifer Clapp
• Green governance and the green state: capacity building as a political project / Peter Christoff
• Environmental politics and the administrative state / Robert Paehlke and Douglas Togerson.

Moves from a North American to a global perspective and includes new articles on both European and Australian experiences as well as on international environmental management.
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• Introduction to environmental governance concepts in the East Asian context / Zafar Adeel
• Case studies of pesticide management
• Malaysian perspectives on the management of pesticides / Abdul Rani Abdullah and Saraswathy Sinnakkannu
• Chinese perspectives on pesticides in the environment / Quan Hao and Huang Yeru
• Thailand's perspectives on pesticides in the environment / Monthip Sriratana Tabucanon
• Case studies of water resources
• Governance scenario for water resources in Malaysia / Abdul Rashid Ahmad and Hasnah Ali
• Water-the lifeline in Thailand / Monthip Sriratana Tabucanon
• Case studies of air pollution
• Managing air pollution problems in Korea / Meehye Lee and Zafar Adeel
• The Japanese approach to governance of air pollution problems / Makiko Yamauchi
• Prescriptions for environmental governance
• Chemical governance in East Asia / Glen Paoletto and Cindy Termorshuizen.

The East Asian region has seen considerable growth in its economy, industrial base, and population in the last two decades. Incidentally, all three of these factors are often linked to over to exploitation and degradation of environmental resources. This book provides an overview of governance policy with regards to environmental challenges in the region. It covers the following countries: Japan, Korea, Malaysia, China and Thailand, a grouping politically and historically diverse enough to provide a glimpse of typical East Asian governance mechanism.
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• PART ONE: HUMAND IN THE ENVIRONMENT.1. Introducing Environmental Science and Sustainability.2. Environmental Laws, Economics, and Ethics.PART TWO: THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.3. Ecosystems and Energy.4. Ecosystems and Living Organisms.5. Ecosystem and the Physical Environment.6. Major Ecosystems of the World.7. Human Health and Environmental Toxicology.PART THREE: A CROWDED WORLD.8. Population Change.9. The Problems of Overpopulation.
• 10. the Urban World.PART FOUR: THE SEARCH FOR ENERGY.11. Fossil Fuels.12. Nuclear Energy.13. Renewable Energy and Conservation.PART FIVE: OUR PRECIOUS RESOURCES.14. Water: A Limited Resource.15. Soil Resources.16. Minerals: A Nonrenewable Resource.17. Preserving Earth's Biological Diversity.18. Land Resources.19. Food Resources: A Challenge for Agriculture.PART SIX: ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS.20. Air Pollution.21. Regional and Global Atmospheric Changes.22. Water Pollution.23. The Pesticide Dilemma.24. Solid and Hazardous Wastes.PART SEVEN: TOMORROW'S WORLD.25. Tomorrow's World.
• Appendix 1: Review of Basic Chemistry.
• Appendix 2: Units of Measure: Some Useful Conversions.
• Appendix 3: Units of Measure: Some Useful Conversions.
• Appendix 4: Abbreviations, Formulas, and Acronyms Used in This Text.Glossary.Photo Credits.Text, Table, and Line Art Credits.Index.
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Raven's "Environment, 5th Edition" is a most accessible, yet detailed, environmental science text. The text provides numerous examples and opportunities for readers to explore issues at a local level. Covering the enormous environmental challenges facing our world today, the new fifth edition of "The Environment" helps readers think critically about these issues and understand the concepts that underlie environmental problems. Rather than telling readers what to think, the book provides the information and tools they need to reach their own conclusions. It: offers solid scientific content balanced with effective and current examples of problems and solutions; introduces the reader to ecosystems, the physical environment, and Earth's biomes; examines the problems of overpopulation as well as environmental concerns such as air pollution and the pesticide dilemma; presents real life case studies that offer in depth analyses of actual situations; includes You Can Make a Difference boxes in each chapter to help readers take an active role in improving the environment; and, offers additional information on a website devoted to further examining critical environmental issues that will help readers make environmentally responsible choices.
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This book is aimed at those with some knowledge of trade or the environment who seeking to understand better how the two interact. It is also a reference tool for those steeped in the issues.
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• Eco-restructuring: the transition to an ecologically sustainable economy / Robert U. Ayres
• The biophysical basis of eco-restructuring: an overview of current relations between human economic activities and the global system / Walther Manshard
• Ecological process engineering: the potential of bioprocessing / Anton Moser
• Materials futures: pollution prevention, recycling, and improved functionality / Pradeep Rohatgi, Kalpana Rohatgi, and Robert U. Ayres
• Global energy futures: the long-term perspective for eco-restructuring / Hans-Holger Rogner
• Fuel decarbonization for fuel cell applications and sequestration of the separated CO₂ / Robert H. Williams
• Photovoltaics / Paolo Frankl
• Global eco-restructuring and technological change in the twenty-first century / Faye Duchin
• Agro-eco-restructuring: potential for sustainability / Heinrich Wohlmeyer
• The restructuring of tropical land-use systems / Gilberto C. Gallopín
• The restructuring of transport, logistics, trade, and industrial space use / Paul M. Weaver
• National and international policy instruments and institutions for eco-restructuring / Mikoto Usui.

This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on sustainability by identifying, on a sectoral basis, the critical issues facing the world as a whole, and the technical feasibility of addressing them. A new paradigm of eco-restructuring for sustainable development is introduced, involving shifts in technology, economic activities and lifestyles needed to harmonize human activities with natural systems. The authors analyze a number of sectors and technological fields that are involved in the search for sustainable patterns of industrialization. Each technology chapter presents the state of the sector, the primary issues that concern the sector's sustainability, and the technical means for achieving sustainable outcomes. Comprehensive coverage is given to the fields of materials, various energy technologies and futures, tropical land use, transport and industrial space use, ecological process engineering, and agro-engineering. The book also contains chapters on systems views of the broader eco-restructuring concept, including its biophysical basis, global eco-restructuring and technological change, and national and international policy instruments and institutions. The book breaks new ground in the understanding of sustainability as a multi- and interdisciplinary area.
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