Product Description

Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them?



Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten major environmental threats-climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, marine fisheries decline, toxic pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance regimes, and new forms of international cooperation.



Written by Gus Speth, one of the architects of the international environmental movement, and accomplished political scientist Peter M. Haas, Global Environmental Governance tells the story of how the community of nations, nongovernmental organizations, scientists, and multinational corporations have in recent decades created an unprecedented set of laws and institutions intended to help solve large-scale environmental problems. The book critically examines the serious shortcomings of current efforts and the underlying reasons why disturbing trends persist. It presents key concepts in international law and regime formation in simple, accessible language, and describes the current institutional landscape as well as lessons learned and new directions needed in international governance. Global Environmental Governance is a concise guide, with lists of key terms, study questions, and other features designed to help readers think about and understand the concepts discussed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36716 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
"Global Environmental Governance serves as an essential primer on the formation of international environmental law and policy...A wonderfully informative account by two of the most respected experts in the field, Global Environmental Governance is not to be missed for anyone looking toward the future of environmental law." (Rosaleen O'Gara InBrief 20070101)

"With its concise but very thorough treatment of the inherently complex topic of global governance, whether focused on environmental or other issues, this first in the series sets a high bar for the ensuing books...Summing up: Recommended." (E.J. Kormondy CHOICE 20070101)

About the Author
From 1993 to 1999, James Gustave Speth served as

administrator of the United Nations Development

Programme and chair of the UN Development Group,

and is currently dean of the Yale School of Forestry and

Environmental Studies. He is the author of Red Sky at

Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global

Environment (Yale University Press, 2004), and Worlds

Apart: Globalization and the Environment (Island Press,

2003) and resides in Guilford, Connecticut.

Peter M. Haas is Professor of

Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Customer Reviews

Interesting, and INformative
This book was very good. It is informative, but easy to read and understand. It mentions modern issues, and also mentions how past environmental acts have influenced certain acts today. A good, educational read that anyone interested in the environment as a career should consider.