Product Description: Debate-style readers can be provocative teaching tools, but if the readings are not in dialogue with one another, the crux of the debate is lost on students. Editors Hird and Haas solve this issue by inviting 15 pairs of scholars and practitioners to directly address current questions in IR through brief "yes" and "no" pieces...read more

Product Description: "International Environmental Governance" reviews the contentious approaches to addressing global and transboundary environmental threats. The volume collects together the most influential and important literature on the major political approaches to dealing with these problems, their histories, major debates, and research frontiers...read more

Product Description: Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them?Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge...read more

Product Description: Addresses the various standards of multilateral environment governance that have appeared within an increasingly globalized system at the beginning of the 21st century.

Product Description: International environmental threats have commanded widespread attention since the late 1960s. A number of unprecedented environmental disasters have galvanized public concern, and have reached the international political agenda in part through the activities of new environmental social movements in the industrialized countries...read more

Product Description: Can environmental institutions be effective at bringing about a healthier environment? How? Institutions for the Earth takes a close look at the factors influencing organized responses to seven international environmental problems - oil pollution from tankers, acid rain in Europe, stratospheric ozone depletion, pollution of the North Sea and Baltic, mismanagement of fisheries, overpopulation, and misuses of farm chemicals - to determine the roles that environmental institutions have played in attempting to solve them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an examination of the Med Plan, a largely successful and acclaimed international effort to co-ordinate the marine pollution control practices of the Mediterranean countries through regional treaties, research and monitoring, integrated policies and administrative and budgetary support...read more