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This volume focuses on environmental governance as a key issue of analysis, to provide an important new conceptualisation of 'region' and regional power.
List of contents
1. Researching Comparative Regional Environmental Governance: Causes, Cases and Consequences
Lorraine Elliott and Shaun Breslin 2. European Union Environmental Policy
John Vogler 3. Pan-European Environmental Cooperation: Achievements and Limitations of the "Environment for Europe" Process
Ralf Nordbeck 4. East Asia and Sub-Regional Diversity: Initiatives, Institutions and Identity
Lorraine Elliott 5. South Asia, its Environment and Regional Institutions
Ashok Swain 6. Sub-Saharan Africa: Fragmented Environmental Governance without Regional Integration
Daniel Compagnon, Fanny Florémont and Isabelle Lamaud 7. The Middle East and North Africa: Sub-Regional Environmental Cooperation as a Security Issue
Dora Kulauzov and Alexios Antypas 8. Under Construction: Debating the Region in South America
Kathryn Hochstetler 9. The North American Case
Debora L. VanNijnatten
About the author
Lorraine Elliott is Professor, Department of International Relations, Australian National University. She has published books on environmental politics with Manchester University Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
Shaun Breslin is Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. He is co-editor of The Pacific Review. He has published several books on Chinese politics and is a board member for international peer-reviewed journals from Blackwell, Taylor and Francis and Cambridge University Press (amongst others).
Summary
This volume focuses on environmental governance as a key issue of analysis, to provide an important new conceptualisation of 'region' and regional power.