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Zusatztext "This fascinating book is one of those rare collections that have a shared and unified purpose. Collectively! the authors cover a diverse set of topics! draw on myriad original sources (including interviews as well as archival research)! tell interesting and new stories! and make a variety of novel arguments." · Bob H. Reinhardt ! Executive Director! Willamette Heritage Center "This book is exceptionally helpful for understanding the interplay between emerging environmental concerns and international politics during the last century. It illuminates the crucial role played by international organisations in developing environmental policies! and in particular it traces the political resolve and intellectual effort behind the concept of sustainable development." · Sara Lorenzini ! University of Trento Informationen zum Autor Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His recent publications include Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot). Klappentext Historical overview of international organizations and environmental policy until Stockholm 1972. First treatment of diversity of international organisations’ involvement in environmental policy. International organisations and the pre-history of the climate change negotiations. New insights in the dominance of economic organisations involved in addressing environmental policy. Zusammenfassung Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer Chapter 1. From Nature to Environment: International Organisations and Environmental Protection before Stockholm Jan-Henrik Meyer Chapter 2. Environmental Problem-solvers? Scientists and the Stockholm Conference Enora Javaudin Chapter 3. Developing World Environmental Cooperation: The Founex Seminar and the Stockholm Conference Michael W. Manulak Chapter 4. Only One Earth: The Holy See and Ecology Luigi Piccioni Chapter 5. Sometimes it's the Economy, Stupid! International Organizations, Steel and the Environment Wolfram Kaiser Chapter 6. Making the Polluter Pay: How the European Communities Established Environmental Protection Jan-Henrik Meyer Chapter 7. (Re-) Thinking Environment and Economy: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Sustainable Development Iris Borowy Chapter 8. Towards 'Sustainable' Development: The United Nations, INGOs, and the Crafting of the World Conservation Strategy Stephen Macekura Chapter 9. Protecting the Southern Ocean Ecosystem: The Environmental Protection Agenda of Antarctic Diplomacy and Science Alessandro Antonello Chapter 10. Controlling the Agenda: Science, Policy and the Making of the Intergovernmental Panel o...
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Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His recent publications include
Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot).
