| Description |
ix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New horizons in environmental economics |
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New horizons in environmental economics.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Analysing the Effectiveness and Institutional Design of International Environmental Regimes: The Conceptual Lenses -- 3. Increasing Concern and Improving Design: The Oslo and Paris Conventions on Marine Pollution in the North-East Atlantic -- 4. More 'Discursive Diplomacy' than 'Dashing Design'? The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) -- 5. A Triumph for Institutional Incentives and Flexible Design? The Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion -- 6. Combining Comparative and Case Study Evidence: Institutional Findings -- 7. Designing an Effective Climate Change Regime: A Task 'Too Hot to Handle'? -- 8. Designing Effective Environmental Regimes: Launching the Three Conditional Ps (Problems, Phases, and Processes) |
| Summary |
This book focuses on the impact and design of international environmental regimes, which are established to preserve natural resources and reduce environmental degradation. The author addresses such regimes from both a conceptual and theoretical point of view as well as using comparative empirical evidence from issue areas such as marine pollution, acid rain, ozone layer depletion and global climate change. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in environmental political economy and institutions, and by policy makers and practitioners involved in the negotiation process |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Environmental law, International.
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| LC no. |
98046613 |
| ISBN |
1840640006 |
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