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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Routledge library editions. Environmental policy ; 8 |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I The roots; 1 UNCHE and UNEP; The 1972 Stockholm Conference; Institutional and substantive responses in the wake of UNCHE; The UNEP era: model and reality; 2 The origin and nature of GEMS; Environmental monitoring at the Stockholm Conference; Setting up the Global Environmental Monitoring System; What is GEMS?; Part ll GEMS in action; 3 Health-related environmental monitoring in GEMS |
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Nature and constituents of GEMS HEALTHIndicators of progress; Factors at work; Assessment and prospects of GEMS HEALTH; 4 Climate-related environmental monitoring in GEMS; GEMS and human-induced climate change: the first steps; Early indicators of progress; Factors at play; Towards an integrated approach to global atmosphere monitoring; 5 Marine pollution monitoring in GEMS; The first steps and controversies; Pollution monitoring in regional seas: the Mediterranean model; Marine pollution monitoring in GEMS: factors at play; Towards comprehensive global marine pollution monitoring |
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6 Natural resources and integrated monitoring in GEMSNatural resources monitoring; Integrated monitoring; The prospects for the monitoring of natural resources and integrated monitoring; 7 Monitoring long-range transboundary air pollution in GEMS; Monitoring long-range transboundary air pollution in Europe; The signifiance of EMEP for GEMS; 8 GRID: Global Resource Information Database; The origins of GRID; The GRID pilot phase; The implementation phase of GRID; GRID and GEMS; 9 GEMS: inching towards a global system?; Assessing GEMS; Whither GEMS?; GEMS: the need for a fresh start |
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Part III What international organization for the twenty-first century?10 Building blocks for a stronger UN; International civil service; Financing international organizations; Institutional betterment as a permanent objective; The challenge of interrelatedness; 11 UN system at a crossroads; Non-reform and change through unilateral action; The need for a comprehensive reform of the UN system; By way of a conclusion; Name index; Subject index |
| Summary |
First published in 1992. In 1972, the UN Conference on the Human Environment initiated the process of world environmental cooperation. This study is about GEMS (the Global Environment Monitoring System) which the Conference recommended be set up to generate data and information necessary for worldwide environmental assessment. This book examines the genesis and evolution of GEMS, and the complex task involved in establishing GEMS and making it perform its functions. It relates GEMS to the factors which have shaped the international environmental agenda and cooperation since 1972. In particular, it highlights North-South differences and the problems inherent in the international organizations belonging to the UN system, vis-รก-vis the novel and multifaceted challenges involved in dealing with systemic, cross-sectoral nature of global environmental problems. The lessons of GEMS and other issues presented in this book are highly relevant to the continuing efforts to set up effective programmes for 'earthwatching' and to promote international environmental cooperation. They also relate more broadly to the challenges of managing global interdependence and to the need to devise supporting organizational structures through reform and strengthening of the UN system. The comprehensive nature of the political and institutional analyses presented in this book make it an academic reference work of lasting value. Its frank tone and willingness to derive prescriptive conclusions will appeal in particular to the many actors engaged in the processes and structures of global multilateral cooperation. The book will be of special use to those interested in environmental issues and international organization |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Global Environmental Monitoring System.
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| SUBJECT |
Global Environmental Monitoring System fast |
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Environmental monitoring -- International cooperation
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Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Environmental monitoring -- International cooperation
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Environmental protection -- International cooperation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429510649 |
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0429510640 |
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9780429514074 |
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0429514077 |
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9780429517501 |
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0429517505 |
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9780429201974 |
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0429201974 |
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