The International politics of the environment, actors, interests, and institutions

Part 1 Standard setting and implementation: the basis of international legal regulation of activities affecting the environment, Patricia Birnie regime theory and the management of the global environment, Martin List and Volker Rittberger international law and protection of the oceans, Kevin Stairs and Peter Taylor negotiating more effective international environmental agreements, Lawrence Susskind and Connie Ozawa how to make and enforce international decisions, Elliot L. Richardson. Part 2 Institutions: past and future roles of the UN system, Peter Thatcher the World Bank, Kenneth Piddington the European Community, Nigel Haigh. Part 3 Power and conflicts of interest: global warming and international action - an economic perspective, Wilfred Beckerman US policy towards the global environment, Richard Cooper NGO influence on US environmental policy abroad, Barbara Bramble and Gareth Porter Japan's global environmental policies, Hans Maull the unavoidability of justice, Henry Shue Brazil and the international politics of Amazonian deforestation, Andrew Hurrell the anatomy of environmental action - tropical deforestation, Norman Myers.