The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy / Edition 4

by Regina S. Axelrod, Stacy D. VanDeveer

Overview

Written by a team of international contributors, this textbook addresses the complexities of global environmental problems by integrating the historical development of environmental organizations and treaties with analyses of laws and policies governing environmental protection. Along with revisions and updates, this second edition includes new coverage on topics such as regime theory, climate change, hazardous chemical controls, and sustainable development. Several chapters are devoted to case studies, including the EU as an environmental governance system, developing nations in global environmental politics, and nuclear power in the Czech Republic. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452241456
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/12/2014
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Regina S. Axelrod is professor of political science and chair of the political science department at Adelphi University. She has published numerous articles and books on environmental and energy policy in the United Sates, the European Union, and Central Europe, including Environment, Energy, Public Policy: Toward a Rational Future and Conflict between Energy and Urban Environment. She has lectured at Charles University, Prague, and the University of Budapest on nuclear power and the transition to democracy. She is an academic associate of the Atlantic Council and past president of the New York Political Science Association. In 2007, she received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to lecture in the Czech Republic. She also received grants from the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, the Soros Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Stacy D. Van Deveer is professor of political science and chair of the department at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include global and regional environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, comparative environmental politics, the connections between environmental and security issues, the roles of expertise in policymaking and the geopolitics of resource consumption. In addition to authoring and coauthoring over 75 articles, book chapters, working papers, and reports, he is the coeditor of Saving the Seas (1997), EU Enlargement and the Environment (2005), Changing Climates in North American Politics (2009), Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics (2009), and Comparative Environmental Politics (2012), and co-author of forthcoming books on the European Union and the Environment and on Transnational Climate Change Governance.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Selected Acronyms in Global Environmental Policy ix

Global Environmental Policy: A Brief Chronology xiv

Contributors xviii

Chapter 1 Governing the Global Environment Regina S. Axelrod Stacy D. VanDeveer 1

Part I International Environmental Actors And Institutions 33

Chapter 2 Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs: International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics Kate O'Neill 35

Chapter 3 International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment Jacqueline Peel 68

Chapter 4 International Environmental Regimes and the Success of Global Ozone Policy David Leonard Downie 101

Chapter 5 Compliance with Global Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases Michael G. Faure 133

Part II Big Players In Global Environmental Policy Making 161

Chapter 6 Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism Elizabeth R. DeSombre 163

Chapter 7 Promoting Environmental Protection in the European Union Miranda A. Schreurs Regina S. Axelrod 191

Chapter 8 How China's Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement Joanna I. Lewis Kelly Sims Gallagher 220

Chapter 9 The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics Adil Najam 245

Part III Cases, Controversies, And Challenges 269

Chapter 10 International Climate Change Policy: Complex Multilevel Governance Michele M. Betsill Desirée Fiske 271

Chapter 11 Global Politics and Policy on Hazardous Substances Henrik Selin 305

Chapter 12 Global Biodiversity Governance: Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems G. Kristin Rosendal 332

Chapter 13 Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance: From the Czech Republic to Fukushima Regina S. Axelrod 359

Chapter 14 Free Trade and Environmental Protection Daniel C. Esty 389

Chapter 15 Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments Stacy D. VanDeveer 412

Index 438

Editorial Reviews

The Global Environment is a strong and authoritative introductory text. The content is of the highest quality, written by an array of notable experts. The editors have done a fantastic job at arranging that multidisciplinary—and potentially unwieldy—content into a coherent framework. Readers will appreciate the clear prose.”

Michael Byron Nelson

This is a comprehensive and very accessible, introductory textbook to Global Environmental Politics. It excels in that it nicely integrates Global Environmental Politics into broader International Relations arguments, while discussing the role of intergovernmental organizations and international cooperation for finding effective solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems of our time.”

Patrick Bayer

I very much appreciate the comparative case study between Montreal and climate change. The regime theory approach is also very useful, especially for my non-IR majors.”

Shannon M. Gibson