Year Book of International Co-operation on Environment and Development (International Environmental Governance Set) - Hardcover

Bergesen, Helge Ole; Parmann, Georg; Thommessen, Oystein B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844079945 ISBN 13: 9781844079940

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

'an invaluable and comprehensive source book on environment and development issues' - "International Affairs". 'a myriad of detailed and difficult to find details on the interrelationship between treaties, IGO, NGOs and governments' - "Journal of the International Juridical Organization for Environment and Development". This is the essential reference to all the rapidly multiplying international agreements on environment and development issues. This seventh annual edition of the Yearbook demonstrates the international community's position on specific environment and development problems, the main obstacles to effective international solutions, and how to overcome them. It assesses both the achievements and shortcomings of co-operation, distinguishing between the rhetoric and the reality of environment world politics. List of contents include: Current Issues and Key Themes, Agreements on Environment and Development. Systematically listed key data and illustrations concerning the most important international agreements presented on the basis of information from the organizations in question and other sources, covering such matters as: objectives, scope, time and place of establishment, status of participation, affiliated instruments and organizations, major activities, secretariat, finance, rules and standards, monitoring and implementation, decision-making bodies, key publications, and Internet sources. This edition includes extensive revisions of entries covering, for example, the new Kyoto Protocol on climate change and agreements related to the 1998 International Year of the Ocean. It covers Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), including UN specialized agencies objectives; type of organization; membership; date of establishment; secretariat; activities; decision-making bodies; finance; key publications; and Internet sources. It also includes International Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) objectives; type of organization; membership; date of establishment; secretariat; activities; budget; key publications; and, Internet sources. It also includes Country Profiles Summaries of the performance and main commitments of 14 OECD countries in addition to Argentina, China, India, Malaysia, and the Russian Federation.

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Review

.."an invaluable and comprehensive source book on environment and development issues" -- International Affairs.."extremely useful information on environmental agreements, inter-governmental organizations and NGOs, combined with often stimulating pieces on a wide range of environmental issues of international or global concern" -- David Scrivener, Keele University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1844079945
• ISBN 13: 9781844079940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352