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Global environmental diplomacy : negotiating environment agreements for the World, 1973-1992 / Mostafa K. Tolba with Iwona Rummel-Bulska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolba, Mostafa Kamal.
- Series:
- Global environmental accords.
- Global environmental accord
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--International cooperation--History.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental law--History.
- Environmental law.
- United Nations Environment Programme--History.
- United Nations Environment Programme.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mostafa K. Tolba tells the story of the negotiations that led to a number of landmark agreements, such as the Vienna Convention on Ozone and its Montreal Protocol, the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes, and the Biodiversity Convention. Tolba concentrates on the context in which governments conclude that particular issues are ripe for binding international cooperation and on the factors that influence them during negotiations--such as science, the media, nongovernmental organizations, politicians, business and industry, and the public. The areas he discusses include the evolution of environmental law, environmental soft laws (principles and guidelines rather than treaties), binding regional regimes such as the Regional Seas Program and the Shared Freshwater Resources Program, the ozone layer, global warming, hazardous wastes, the loss of biological diversity, and ways to make international agreements work.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Mario J. Molina Prologue: Stockholm and Beyond: Sustainable Development 1. The Evolution of International Environmental Law 2. Environmental Soft Law: Guidelines and Principles 3. Negotiating Binding Regional Regimes: The Regional Seas Program 4. Negotiating Binding Regional Regimes: Shared Freshwater Resources 5. The Story of the Ozone Layer 6. Facing Up to Global Warming 7. The Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes 8. The Loss of Biological Diversity 9. Making International Environmental Agreements Work
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-203) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-28505-3
- 0-585-08851-9
- OCLC:
- 42856275
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