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International Organizations and Environmental Protection : Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century / ed. by Jan-Henrik Meyer, Wolfram Kaiser.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 11Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785333620
  • 9781785333637
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  • TD170.2 .I559 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century -- CHAPTER 1 From Nature to Environment: International Organizations and Environmental Protection before Stockholm -- CHAPTER 2 Environmental Problem-Solvers? Scientists and the Stockholm Conference -- CHAPTER 3 Developing World Environmental Cooperation: The Founex Seminar and the Stockholm Conference -- CHAPTER 4 Only One Earth: The Holy See and Ecology -- CHAPTER 5 Sometimes it’s the Economy, Stupid! International Organizations, Steel and the Environment -- CHAPTER 6 Making the Polluter Pay: How the European Communities Established Environmental Protection -- CHAPTER 7 (Re-)Thinking Environment and Economy: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Sustainable Development -- CHAPTER 8 Towards ‘Sustainable’ Development: The United Nations, INGOs and the Crafting of the World Conservation Strategy -- CHAPTER 9 Protecting the Southern Ocean Ecosystem: The Environmental Protection Agenda of Antarctic Diplomacy and Science -- CHAPTER 10 Controlling the Agenda: Science, Policy and the Making of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Conclusion: Setting Agendas, Building Institutions and Shaping Binding International Commitments -- Index
Summary: Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century -- CHAPTER 1 From Nature to Environment: International Organizations and Environmental Protection before Stockholm -- CHAPTER 2 Environmental Problem-Solvers? Scientists and the Stockholm Conference -- CHAPTER 3 Developing World Environmental Cooperation: The Founex Seminar and the Stockholm Conference -- CHAPTER 4 Only One Earth: The Holy See and Ecology -- CHAPTER 5 Sometimes it’s the Economy, Stupid! International Organizations, Steel and the Environment -- CHAPTER 6 Making the Polluter Pay: How the European Communities Established Environmental Protection -- CHAPTER 7 (Re-)Thinking Environment and Economy: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Sustainable Development -- CHAPTER 8 Towards ‘Sustainable’ Development: The United Nations, INGOs and the Crafting of the World Conservation Strategy -- CHAPTER 9 Protecting the Southern Ocean Ecosystem: The Environmental Protection Agenda of Antarctic Diplomacy and Science -- CHAPTER 10 Controlling the Agenda: Science, Policy and the Making of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Conclusion: Setting Agendas, Building Institutions and Shaping Binding International Commitments -- Index

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Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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