Global Environmental Politics (Dilemmas in World Politics) - Softcover

Chasek, Pamela S.; Downie, David L.; Brown, Janet Welsh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813343321 ISBN 13: 9780813343327

Publisher: Westview Press, 2006

Synopsis

When Global Environmental Politics was first published, the environment was just emerging as a pivotal issue in traditional international relations. Today, the environment is considered to be a central topic to discussions of international politics, political economy, international organization, and the relationship between foreign and domestic policy. With new and updated case studies throughout, a revised chapter on improving compliance with international environmental regimes, and a new section on environment within the larger context of sustainable development, this classic text is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of international environmental politics on the market. In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualize key topics such as the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Kyoto Protocol, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, international forest policy, and the trade, development and environment nexus. Environmental concerns from global warming to biodiversity loss to whaling are seen as challenges to transnational relations, with governments, NGOs, IGOs, and MNCs all involved in the multilateral interaction that is necessary to address the ever-complicated subject of global environmental politics.

About this title

About the Author:

Pamela S. Chasek is the co-founder and editor of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on United Nations environment and development negotiations. The author of numerous publications on environmental negotiations, the United Nations and global environmental politics, she is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program at Manhattan College. David L. Downie is Associate Director of the Program in Climate and Society and Director of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change at Columbia University, where he has taught courses on international environmental politics since 1994. The author of numerous publications on environmental policy and institutions, he served as Director of Environmental Policy Studies at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs from 1994 through 1999. Janet Welsh Brown was a long-time senior research associate at the World Resources Institute, former chair of the board of Friends of the Earth, and formerly the executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund. She has taught a variety of courses in international relations and environmental politics at the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of the District of Columbia, Howard University, and Sarah Lawrence College.

Review:

"A well-seasoned text...best in its field. With more books like this, we stand a better chance of managing planet Earth." -- David Rosenberg, Middlebury College

"My textbook of choice for the clarity of writing, the breadth of its scope and the depth of its discourse." -- Adil Najam, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

"The definitive textbook in its field. Up-to-date, thorough, accurate, and consistently interesting for both students and teachers." -- Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813343321
• ISBN 13: 9780813343327
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 368