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Author Parson, Edward

Title Protecting the ozone layer : science and strategy / Edward A. Parson
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) : illustrations
Contents Stratospheric ozone and its protection: introduction and background -- Early stratospheric science, chlorofluorocarbons, and the emergence of environmental concern -- Setting the stage: national action and early international efforts, 1970-1980 -- The search for knowledge-based resolution: science and scientific assessment, 1976-1985 -- Negotiations and strategy, 1980-1987 -- Eliminating chlorofluorocarbons: science, assessment, and responses, 1986-1988 -- Industry strategy and technical innovation, 1987-1992 -- Building an adaptive regime: the protocol evolving, 1989-1999 -- The theoretical and practical significance of the ozone regime
Summary Providing an account of the ozone-depletion issues from the attempts to develop international action in the 1970s to the mature functioning of the international regime, this book examines the parallel developments of politics and negotiations, technological progress, and industry strategy that shaped the issue's development and its management
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-367) and index
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Subject Ozone layer depletion -- Prevention -- History -- 20th century
Reduction de la couche d'ozone.
CFC.
Cooperation scientifique.
Conventions internationales.
Ozone layer depletion -- Prevention
Ozonschicht
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Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
ISBN 1281930210
9781281930217
9780199833955
0199833958