Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements

by Lawrence E. Susskind

Overview

This book examines the weaknesses of the existing system of environmental treaty-making and suggests key changes necessary both to confront emerging global environmental threats (climate change, loss of biodiversity, ocean pollution etc.) and to achieve sustainable development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195360462
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/17/1994
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Lawrence E. Susskind is the Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was the founding director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program as well as the Consensus-Building Institute. For his career of services to improving consensus-building practice, Professor Susskind received the first Kenneth Cloke Peacemaker Award for outstanding and lasting contributions in International Peace-building by Mediators Beyond Borders. Professor Susskind has advised the United Nations, the OECD, the World Bank and numerous national governments on environmental negotiations. His earlier books include Dealing with an Angry Public and Breaking the Impasse.

Saleem H. Ali is a Professor at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland Australia where he also directs the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining and is a faculty member in the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program within the university's School of Politics and International Studies. Professor Ali is also adjunct Professor at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources where he founded the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security. He was selected as a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum in 2011 and an "Emerging Explorer" by the National Geographic Society in 2010. His earlier books include Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future and Mining, the Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Foreword by Dr. Zakri Abdul Hamid

Preface

Chapter 1
What Is This Book About?

Chapter 2
The Weaknesses of the Existing Environmental Treaty-Making System

Chapter 3
Representation and Voting

Chapter 4
The Need for a Better Balance between Science and Politics

Chapter 5
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Issue Linkage

Chapter 6
Monitoring and Enforcement in the Face of Sovereignty

Chapter 7
Reforming the System


Appendices

Appendix A: Treaties

Appendix B: Declaration of the Right to Nature Conservation, Environmental Protection, and Sustainable Development

Appendix C: The Green Economy Framework for Environmental Diplomacy as stipulated in the Rio Plus 20 Final Outcome Document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, The Future We Want (Section III)

Appendix D: Steps in the Making of a Treaty in the US Ratification Process

Index

Editorial Reviews

"The author assumes sustainable development to be the agreed upon goal, the globe to be the available arena, and national representatives to be the primary actors. These assumptions, even though controversial, take this book beyond the scholarly domain and make it appealing to policy makers and national delgeates. Once the assumptions are accepted, Susskind's strategy becomes very powerful."—Choice

The single best book on the negotiating process for protecting the global environment."—Roger Fisher, Harvard Law School, co-author of Getting to Yes

"This book should be mandatory reading for every policymaker involved with the environment and natural resources at the national and international level and certainly by every environmentalist—from both government or non-government sectors—who is worried about the state of our world and is looking for new avenues."—Dr. Uri Marinov, Former Director-General of Environmental Protection Services, Israel

"Environmental Diplomacy gives us a perceptive and personal analysis of the successes and weaknesses of past international negotiations affecting the environment. Drawing from that, Susskind offers many provocative ideas for new approaches to institutions and procedures that can better advance the essential goals of protecting the common heritage of all nations and peoples."—Eugene B. Skolnikoff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Environmental Diplomacy is a must for all who want to contribute to the implementation of Rio's Agenda 21 towards sustainable development!"—Marius E. Enthoven, Director-General for Environmental Protection, Ministry of Housing, Planning and Environment, The Netherlands

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