The Global Environment (eBook)

Preface
Selected Acronyms in Global Environmental Policy
Global Environmental Policy: A Brief Chronology
Contributors
CHAPTER 1 • Governing the Global Environment
PART I • INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 2 • Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs: International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics
CHAPTER 3 • International Law and the Protection of the Global Environment
CHAPTER 4 • International Environmental Regimes and the Success of Global Ozone Policy
CHAPTER 5 • Compliance with Global Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Ozone Layer Cases
PART II • BIG PLAYERS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKING
CHAPTER 6 • Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism
CHAPTER 7 • Promoting Environmental Protection in the European Union
CHAPTER 8 • How China’s Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement
CHAPTER 9 • The View from the South: Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics
PART III • CASES, CONTROVERSIES, AND CHALLENGES
CHAPTER 10 • International Climate Change Policy: Complex Multilevel Governance
CHAPTER 11 • Global Politics and Policy on Hazardous Substances
CHAPTER 12 • Global Biodiversity Governance: Genetic Resources, Species, and Ecosystems
CHAPTER 13 • Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance: From the Czech Republic to Fukushima
CHAPTER 14 • Free Trade and Environmental Protection
CHAPTER 15 • Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments
Index