Reforming international environmental governance [electronic resource] : from institutional limits to innovative solutions / edited by W. Bradnee Chambers and Jessica F. Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chambers, W. Bradnee.

Green, Jessica F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--International cooperation.

Environmental policy.

Environmental law, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than 500 international agreements and institutions now influence the governance of environmental problems ranging from climate change to persistent organic pollutants. The establishment of environmental institutions has been largely ad hoc, diffused, and somewhat chaotic because the international community has addressed key environmental challenges as and when they have arisen. The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 underscored the need to reform the current institutional framework for environmental governance, but failed to come up with any substantive recomm

Contents:

CONTENTS; Foreword; List of contributors; Introduction: Toward an effective framework for sustainabledevelopment; 1 From environmental to sustainable development governance:Thirty years of coordination within the United Nations; 2 Clustering of multilateral environmental agreements: Potentialsand limitations; 3 Strengthening international environmental governance bystrengthening UNEP; 4 A World Environment Organization; 5 The World Trade Organization and global environmentalgovernance; 6 Judicial mechanisms: Is there a need for a World EnvironmentCourt?

7 Reforming the United Nations Trusteeship Council8 Expanding the mandate of the United Nations Security Council; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

92-808-7090-4

1-4237-6605-9

OCLC:

826486248