In this newly revised and expanded edition of the award-winning International Environmental Policy, Lynton Keith Caldwell updates his comprehensive survey of the global international movement for protection of the environment. Serving as a history of international cooperation on environmental issues, this book focuses primarily on the development of international agreements and institutional arrangements—both governmental and nongovernmental—along with the impact of science, technology, trade, and communication on environmental policy. With implications for multinational commerce, population policy, agriculture, energy issues, biological and cultural diversity, transnational equity, ideology, and education, this book takes a broad view of the policy outcomes of what may be the most important social movement of the 20th century, and addresses the events and politics that have significantly affected the movement over the last twenty years and will continue to affect it into the next century.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Defense of Earth in a Changing World: An Introduction
- Chapter 1. Comprehending the Environment
- Chapter 2. Growth of International Concern
- Chapter 3. The Road to Stockholm
- Chapter 4. The Stockholm Conference
- Chapter 5. Post-Stockholm Assessment
- Chapter 6. Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21
- Chapter 7. International Structures for Environmental Policy
- Chapter 8. Transnational Regimes and Regional Agreements
- Chapter 9. International Commons: Air, Sea, Outer Space
- Chapter 10. Sustainability: Population, Resources, Development
- Chapter 11. Enchancing the Quality of Life: Natural and Cultural Environments
- Chapter 12. Strategies for Global Environmental Protection
- Chapter 13. A Changing World Order: Into the Twenty-First Century
- Appendixes
- A. Abbreviations
- B. Representative Listing of International Organizations and Programs
- C. Events of Significance for Protection of the Biosphere, 1945-1995
- D. Selected Treaties of Environmental Significance, 1946-1995
- E. Environmental Soft Law: Declarations, Resolutions, Recommendations, Principles
- Notes and References
- Index to Topics and Institutions
- Index to Authors