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Engaging countries : strengthening compliance with international environmental accords / edited by Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global environmental accordsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 615 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585078610
  • 9780585078618
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Engaging countries.DDC classification:
  • 341.7/62 21
LOC classification:
  • K3585.4 .E545 1998eb
Other classification:
  • D996. 9
Online resources:
Contents:
Series foreword -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. A framework for analysis -- 2. How compliance happens and doesn't happen domestically -- 3. Managing compliance: A comparative perspective -- 4. Contingent knowledge: Implications for implementation and compliance -- 5. The five international treaties: A living history -- 6. The United States: Taking environmental treaties seriously -- 7. The European Union and compliance: A story in the making -- 8. Japan: Consensus-based compliance -- 9. The Soviet Union and the Russian federation: A natural experiment in environmental compliance -- 10. Hungary: Political interest, bureaucratic will -- 11. China: Implementation under economic growth and market reform -- 12. India: Embedded capacities -- 13. Cameroon's environmental accords: Signed, sealed, but undelivered -- 14. Brazil: Regional inequalities and ecological diversity in a federal system -- 15. Assessing the record and designing strategies to engage countries -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-589) and index.

Series foreword -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. A framework for analysis -- 2. How compliance happens and doesn't happen domestically -- 3. Managing compliance: A comparative perspective -- 4. Contingent knowledge: Implications for implementation and compliance -- 5. The five international treaties: A living history -- 6. The United States: Taking environmental treaties seriously -- 7. The European Union and compliance: A story in the making -- 8. Japan: Consensus-based compliance -- 9. The Soviet Union and the Russian federation: A natural experiment in environmental compliance -- 10. Hungary: Political interest, bureaucratic will -- 11. China: Implementation under economic growth and market reform -- 12. India: Embedded capacities -- 13. Cameroon's environmental accords: Signed, sealed, but undelivered -- 14. Brazil: Regional inequalities and ecological diversity in a federal system -- 15. Assessing the record and designing strategies to engage countries -- References -- Index.

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