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Green Globe Yearbook 1997

Author : Helge Ole Bergesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198233480
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Green Globe Yearbook 1997 written by Helge Ole Bergesen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Globe Yearbook aims to demonstrate to a world-wide readership where the international community stands with regard to solving specific environment and development problems, what the main obstacles are to effective international solutions, and what must be done to overcome them. The Yearbook is composed of two separate parts: evaluation and reference. The reference section contains systematically listed key data concerning the most important international agreements on environment and development, and inter-and non-governmental organizations with activities in this area. Most of them are presented in a two-page spread with illustrations. This section is updated in every volume, on the basis of information from the organizations in question and other sources. A subsection of country pofiles summarizes the performance, main commitments, and objectives in fourteen OECD countries in relation to international co-operation on environment and sustainable development. The evaluation section comprises articles written by leading, independent experts, which give the reader an up-to-date assessment of the realities behind the formal set-up described in the reference section. The authors present an informed evaluation of the results achieved through international collaboration within a particular agreement, organization, or process. It is pointed out not only to what extent the participating states have succeeded in dealing collectively with the problem at hand, but also how to overcome barriers to further progress. The 1997 volume has as its main focus on nature conservation comprising evaluations on: the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Sepecies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); IUCN - The World Conservation Union; and World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). In addition it includes evaluations on: the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and the Global Envirnment Facility (GEF) with focus on International Waters. The combination of independent, high-quality analysis, and a useful reference section makes this Yearbook an indispensable guide for decision-makers in government, international organizations, NGOs, and industry as well as an essential source book for policy-makers, academic institutions, students, and libraries serving the concerned public. (Adapted from publisher's abstract).

Green Globe Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Dinosaurs or Dynamos

Author : Helge Ole Bergesen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134193785
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs or Dynamos written by Helge Ole Bergesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how much and what the World Bank and the United Nations can really be expected to achieve. The text begins with a detailed account of the evolution of the two organizations as multilateral development institutions and then focuses on the functions that the World Bank and the UN carry out, and the governing structures that underlie their activities. The authors then go on to question what need there is for these two multilateral institutions in the next century and which tasks they can undertake in promoting world development. Both the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank have repeatedly proclaimed their solemn ambitions to improve the lot of humankind. Dinosaurs or Dynamos? explores how much, and what, they can really be expected to do. Both have extended their functions far beyond their original mandates, while their decision-making structures have remained basically unaltered despite recent adaptations on the part of the World Bank. Such expansions have created serious strains on both organizations. The UN has ambitions to perform tasks, such as the search for 'good governance' and 'sustainable development', for which it is ill equipped. The World Bank has taken on normative functions - 'the premier development institution' - that are incompatible with its traditional structures. The authors ask, what need is there for these two multilateral development institutions in the next century? Which tasks in promoting world development can they undertake that others cannot? To whom are these institutions politically accountable, who sets their agendas and are they credible given financial constraints? Dinosaurs or Dynamos? is an essential guide for those working within the international community, non-governmental organizations, governments and students of development, economics, politics and international relations.

Green Globe Yearbook

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199617692
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (176 download)

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Green Globe Yearbook

Author : Helge Ole Bergesen
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ISBN 13 :
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The People's Own Landscape

Author : Scott Moranda
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047202972X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The People's Own Landscape written by Scott Moranda and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party aimed to placate a public well aware of the higher standards of living enjoyed elsewhere by encouraging them to participate in outdoor activities and take vacations in the countryside. Scott Moranda considers East Germany’s rural landscapes from the perspective of both technical experts (landscape architects, biologists, and physicians) who hoped to dictate how vacationers interacted with nature, and the vacationers themselves, whose outdoor experience shaped their understanding of environmental change. As authorities eliminated traditional tourist and nature conservation organizations, dissident conservationists demanded better protection of natural spaces. At the same time, many East Germans shared their government’s expectations for economic development that had real consequences for the land. By the 1980s, environmentalists saw themselves as outsiders struggling against the state and a public that had embraced mainstream ideas about limitless economic growth and material pleasures.

The WTO Dispute Settlement System

Author : Kati Kulovesi
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041142800
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The WTO Dispute Settlement System written by Kati Kulovesi and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tensions between economic interests and environmental protection have assumed crisis proportions in awareness at every level of society. In particular, the World Trade Organization has become entangled in controversies related to legitimacy, democracy, environmental protection, and fragmentation of international law, fuelling a contentious debate on the use (or abuse) of environmental norms at the WTO. To a greater degree than any comparable treatment, this book focuses on the role of the WTO dispute settlement system in addressing trade-environment conflicts. Highlighting the ways in which environmental issues challenge the legitimacy of WTO jurisprudence, it considers such relevant core issues as the following: challenges posed to the WTO by so-called "linkage" issues, such as environmental protection, labour, and investment; to what extent the WTO can apply rules of international law (e.g., environmental ones) that are not contained in the WTO agreements; and concerns over the Dispute Settlement System's lack of democratic accountability in matters of great public interest. The study analyses in detail the role of international environmental law in three key WTO cases, namely the Shrimp-Turtle, Hormones and Biotech disputes. This deeply informed and thoughtful book is of special importance for its proposals on how the WTO dispute settlement system can improve its legitimacy while respecting the limits of its mandate. It will be welcomed by international trade attorneys, environmental lawyers, concerned academics and students, and government officials in both trade and environmental policy.

Elephant Treaties

Author : Rachelle Adam
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611684994
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Elephant Treaties written by Rachelle Adam and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a legal history of international biodiversity treaties from the late nineteenth century to the present, Rachelle Adam argues that todayÕs biodiversity crisis is rooted in European colonial history, especially in the conservation treaties that the colonial powers (and their non-governmental counterparts) negotiated to protect AfricaÕs big-game animals. Reflecting on the colonial pastÑparticularly on efforts to manage the commerce in elephant ivoryÑAdam sheds light on why more recent attempts to arrest the decline in biodiversity by way of international agreement have failed. This volume will spur a rethinking of such agreements and trigger a search for alternatives outside of existing international structures.

Governance of Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation

Author : Serge M. Garcia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118392639
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Governance of Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation written by Serge M. Garcia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance of Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation explores governance of the world’s oceans with a focus on the impacts of two inter-connected but historically separate streams of governance: one for fisheries, the other for biodiversity conservation. Chapters, most co-authored by leading experts from both streams, investigate the interaction of these governance streams from ecological, economic, social and legal perspectives, with emphasis on policies, institutions processes, and outcomes on scales from the global to the local community, and with coverage of a range of themes and regions of the world. The book opens with chapters setting the historical context for the two marine governance streams, and framing the book’s exploration of whether, as the streams increasingly interact, there will be merger or collision, convergence or co-evolution. The concluding chapter synthesizes the insights from throughout the book, relative to the questions posed in the opening chapters. It also draws conclusions about future needs and directions in the governance of marine fisheries and biodiversity, vital to the future of the world’s oceans. With cutting edge chapters written by many leading international experts in fisheries management and biodiversity conservation, and edited by three leading figures in this crucially important subject, Governance of Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation is an essential purchase for fisheries scientists, economists, resource managers and policymakers, and all those working in fields of biodiversity conservation, marine ecology, and coastal livelihoods. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where environmental and/or marine studies, conservation, ocean policy and law, biological and life sciences, and fisheries management are studied and taught, should have copies of this most important book.

The role of CITES in the governance of transnational timber trade

Author : Rosalind Reeve
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 : 6023870058
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book The role of CITES in the governance of transnational timber trade written by Rosalind Reeve and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scoping paper analyzes the governance of trade in timber-producing species regulated by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) in light of the Conventions increasing relevance as a tool to control transnational timber trade. The CITES regulatory framework is outlined as it relates to tree species, along with the compliance mechanisms developed to build range state capacity for implementing trade controls in relation to tropical timber species and to apply sanctions to countries that fail to take recommended action to resolve implementation problems. The study describes stricter domestic measures developed by consumer countries, most notably the EU, to control imports of CITES-listed species, including trees, as well as additional regulatory frameworks designed by importing countries to exclude illegal timber from their markets. It also examines the implications for CITES of regional economic integration given the Conventions dependence on national border controls, with a focus on experience in the EU and trends in Asia. Key findings from three case studies of how CITES has approached governance of trade in valuable timber-producing species ramin (Gonystylus spp.) from Asia, afrormosia (Pericopsis elata) from Central and West Africa and bigleaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) from Latin America are presented and other potential case studies identified. The study concludes by identifying priority areas where further research could contribute towards catalyzing positive change to strengthen the governance of transnational timber trade, and ultimately towards the survival of tree species traded illegally and unsustainably.

Getting the Climate Science Facts Right

Author : Medani P. Bhandari
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000797201
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Getting the Climate Science Facts Right written by Medani P. Bhandari and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting the Climate Science Facts Right - discusses climate change science with reference to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Addressing climate change is the most important public priority of the 21st Century. Unlike many issues, however, this issue is being driven by both science and its interface with politics. The main institution for bridging this division between science and international politics is the IPCC. As such it is the main source of the facts from which climate change policy is developed. This book describes the ways in which the IPCC arrives at these facts and so can be sure they are complete and evidence based.Seldom in history has science had such a direct relationship with politics. The negotiation of an international policy regime requires, at its outset, an agreement on the facts. In this case, the facts are scientific, complex and contentious. Governments have recognized this and have, by using the IPCC, set up institutional machinery to provide facts from a source and in a manner that they can accept.The way in which the IPCC functions is unique in that it melds the way in which science achieves consensus with the way governments do at the international level. Starting with a process to examine, review and debate scientific findings leading to a consensus about scientific fact, usually expressed as probabilities that the findings will hold over time, the IPCC then concludes by using the kind of consensus-development mechanism that the United Nations typically uses to achieve agreements leading to the formation of policy regimes.The book examines the structure of the IPCC, its composition and its procedures in order to achieve an understanding of its role and future.

Environmental Regime Effectiveness

Author : Edward L. Miles
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263726
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Regime Effectiveness written by Edward L. Miles and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-11-09 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines that environmental regimes actually do better than the collective model of the book predicts. The effective regimes examined involve the End of Dumping in the North Sea, Sea Dumping of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Management of Tuna Fisheries in the Pacific, and the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion. Mixed-performance regimes include Land-Based Pollution Control in the North Sea, the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, Satellite Telecommunication, and Management of High Seas Salmon in the North Pacific. Ineffective regimes are the Mediterranean Action Plan, Oil Pollution from Ships at Sea, International Trade in Endangered Species, the International Whaling Commission, and the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

Recueil Des Cours/Collected Courses, Volume 285 (2000)

Author : Academie de Droit International de la Haye
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789041116062
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Recueil Des Cours/Collected Courses, Volume 285 (2000) written by Academie de Droit International de la Haye and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Academy is an institution for the study and teaching of public and private international law and related subjects. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the "Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law." This volume contains: - International Law and International Relations by A.-M. SLAUGHTER, Director, Graduate and International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School; - L'Etat insulaire by L. LUCCHINI, Professeur a l'Institut oceanographique de Paris. To access the abstract texts for this volume please click here

Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 2003-04

Author : Olav Schram Stokke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134071701
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 2003-04 written by Olav Schram Stokke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Yearbook's extensive coverage makes a valuable contribution in promoting international co-operation on environment' Xie Zhenhu, Minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) of China 'A vital contribution in terms of reliable research and information on key issues of sustainable development. It constitutes an invaluable tool for facilitating the dialogue among all stakeholders involved in the implementation of the commitments agreed to in the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)' Ian Johnson World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development The essential reference to all the rapidly multiplying international agreements on environment and development issues. This ninth 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. Contents * 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 ? Internet sources. This edition includes several recently adopted conventions and protocols. * Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), including UN specialized agencies objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? decision-making bodies ? finance ? key publications ? Internet sources. * International Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) * objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? budget ? key publications ? Internet sources. Originally published in 2003

The Use of CITES for Commercially-exploited Fish Species

Author : Solène Guggisberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319237020
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Use of CITES for Commercially-exploited Fish Species written by Solène Guggisberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the legality, adequacy and efficacy of using the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) for commercially-exploited fish species and assesses whether the existing institutional cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) is efficient. This case-study also provides an interesting lens to approaching wider international law issues. Indeed, finding ways to achieve effective governance of transboundary or global natural resources is central to the peaceful use of oceans and land. Furthermore, the role of science in advising decision-makers is a sensitive issue, which deserves scrutiny and is similar in many regimes. Finally, the complex problem of fragmentation of international law is acute in various fields of environmental law, as in all rapidly developing areas of international regulations.

India, Facts & Figures

Author : M. Mohan Mathews
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788120722859
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book India, Facts & Figures written by M. Mohan Mathews and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2001 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 1999-2000

Author : Helge Ole Bergesen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134055463
Total Pages : 379 pages
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Download or read book Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 1999-2000 written by Helge Ole Bergesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Contents * 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 ? Internet sources. This edition includes the new Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. * Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), including UN specialized agencies objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? decision-making bodies ? finance ? key publications ? Internet sources. * International Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) * objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? budget ? key publications ? Internet sources. * Country Profiles Summaries of the performance and main commitments of 15 OECD countries in addition to Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Thailand. Originally published in 1999