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Title Global accord : environmental challenges and international responses / edited by Nazli Choucri
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description xxiv, 562 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Global environmental accords series
Global environmental accords series.
Contents Foreword / Maurice F. Strong. 1. Introduction: Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Perspectives /Nazli Choucri -- I. Theoretical and Empirical Dimensions. 2. Physical Dimensions of Global Change /Thomas F. Homer-Dixon. 3. Growth, Development, and Environmental Sustainability: Profile and Paradox /Nazli Choucri and Robert C. North. 4. The Rise of Global Ecopolitics / Hayward R. Alker, Jr. and Peter M. Haas -- II. Actors and Processes. 5. Eco-Development Perspectives on Global Change from Developing Countries / Francisco R. Sagasti and Michael E. Colby. 6. Multinational Corporations and the Global Environment / Nazli Choucri. 7. Science and Technology: The Sources of Change / Eugene B. Skolnikoff. 8. Environmental Challenges and Managerial Responses: A Decision Perspective / Garry D. Brewer --III. Economics and Law. 9. Economic Perspectives on Time Comparisons: An Evaluation of Time Discounting /Jerome Rothenberg
10. Intergenerational Equity: Toward an International Legal Framework / Edith Brown Weiss. 11. Economic Perspectives on Time Comparisons: Alternative Approaches to Time Comparisons / Jerome Rothenberg --IV. International Institutions and Systems. 12. Evolving International Environmental Law: Changing Practices of National Sovereignty / Peter M. Haas and Jan Sundgren. 13. Negotiating an International Climate Regime: The Institutional Bargaining for Environmental Governance / Oran R. Young. 14. Pragmatic Approaches to Regime Building for Complex International Problems /David G. Victor, Abram Chayes and Eugene B. Skolnikoff -- V. Conclusion. 15. Global Accord: Imperatives for the Twenty-first Century / Nazli Choucri and Robert C. North
Analysis Environment Conservation
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-541) and index
Subject Environmental policy -- International cooperation.
Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
Author Choucri, Nazli.
LC no. 92035201
ISBN 0262032007
0262531348