Environmental diplomacy : negotiating more effective global agreements / Lawrence E. Susskind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Susskind, Lawrence, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law, International.

Sustainable development--Law and legislation.

Sustainable development.

Negotiation--Methodology.

Negotiation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p. ) table

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Solutions to environmental problems require international cooperation, but global environmental treaty-making efforts, including the 1992 U.N.-sponsored Earth Summit in Brazil, have not accomplished much. International cooperation has been hampered by the conflicts between the developed nations of the North and the developing nations of the South; by the fact that science cannot accurately predict when or how environmental threats will materialize; and by the problem that the United Nations treaty-making system was never meant to handle threats to the environment. Lawrence Susskind looks at the weaknesses of the existing system of environmental treaty-making and the increasing role of non-governmental interests in environmental diplomacy. Environmental Diplomacy argues for "nearly self-enforcing" agreements that ensure compliance without threatening sovereignty and maintains that new institutional arrangements are within reach. Susskind builds on the work of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School and the International Environmental Negotiation Network to offer guidelines for more effective global agreements that provide for sustainable development.

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773329-8

1-280-44245-X

0-19-536046-X

1-60129-888-9

OCLC:

1406787140