Rio: Unravelling the Consequences

by Caroline Thomas (Editor)

Overview

The interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates whether UNCED and its output were appropriate for averting global environmental and developmental catastrophe. The intellectual debate inside and outside UNCED has been dominated by powerful entrenched interests which marginalise rival interpretations of the crisis and block possible alternative ways forward. The crisis is therefore being tackled by a continuation of the very policies that largely caused it in the first place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135201531
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Caroline Thomas

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Beyond UNCED: An Introduction, Caroline Thomas; Chapter 2 Environment on the Periphery of International Relations: An Explanation, Steve Smith; Chapter 3 Global Environmental Degradation, Modernity and Environmental Knowledge, Julian Saurin; Chapter 4 Structural Adjustment Programmes and the UNCED Agenda: Explaining the Contradictions, John F. Devlin, Nonita T. Yap; Chapter 5 International Trade and the Environment: Issues, Perspectives and Challenges, Marc Williams; Chapter 6 The Market for Sulphur Dioxide Permits in the USA and UK, Alan Ingham; Chapter 7 The United Nations' Role in Sustainable Development, Mark F. Imber; Chapter 8 Letting the Genie Out: Local Government and UNCED, John Gordon; Chapter 9 International Environmental Regimes: Verification and Implementation Review, Owen Greene; Chapter 10 The Politics of Climate Change after UNCED, Matthew Paterson; Chapter 11 Population Dynamics and Environmental Degradation in Nepal: An Interpretation, Yagya Bahadur Karki; Chapter 12 Freshwater and the Post-UNCED Agenda, Darryl Howlett; Chapter 13 Environment, Development and Security, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu;

Editorial Reviews

Contributors from a wide variety of countries and disciplines concur that the much-touted Rio Conference in June 1992 has not led to improved prospects for the environment. The same entrenched interests that caused the problems, they say, are trying to solve them with the same entrenched thought patterns. They do see some hope in the identity crisis of the state, which might open a window for new models of relationships with nature and each other. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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