Global environmental diplomacy : negotiating environment agreements for the World, 1973-1992 / Mostafa K. Tolba with Iwona Rummel-Bulska.

By:

Tolba, Mostafa Kamal

Contributor(s):

Rummel-Bulska, Iwona

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Global environmental accordsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780262285056
0262285053
0585088519
9780585088518
9780262201131
0262201135

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global environmental diplomacy.DDC classification:

363.7/0526 21

LOC classification:

GE170 .T65 1998eb

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Contents:

|t Foreword / |r Mario J. Molina |t Prologue: Stockholm and Beyond: Sustainable Development |g 1. |t The Evolution of International Environmental Law |g 2. |t Environmental Soft Law: Guidelines and Principles |g 3. |t Negotiating Binding Regional Regimes: The Regional Seas Program |g 4. |t Negotiating Binding Regional Regimes: Shared Freshwater Resources |g 5. |t The Story of the Ozone Layer |g 6. |t Facing Up to Global Warming |g 7. |t The Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes |g 8. |t The Loss of Biological Diversity |g 9. |t Making International Environmental Agreements Work.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-203) and index.

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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.

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