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A world environment organization - Solution or threat for effective international environmental governance?

Author
Biermann F., Bauer S. (eds.)
Date
2005
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-073244)
Publisher | Place of publication
Ashgate Publishing | Aldershot, UK
ISBN
0 7546 3765 4
Pages
292 p.
Document type
Miscellaneous
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Policy/planning International organization
Abstract

Contents: (1) Foreword (2) The debate on a world environment organization: An introduction (3) Global environmental governance assessing the need for reform: The United Nation s' record on environmental governance: An assessment (4) Global environmental governance: Challenges for the South from a theoretical perspective (5) The case for a world environment organization: Toward a world environment organization: Reflections upon a vital debate (6) The rationale for a world environment organization (7) Generating effective global environmental governance: The North s' need for a world environment organization (8) The case against a world environment organization: Clustering international environmental agreements as an alternative to a world environment organization (9) Reforming international environmental governance: An institutional perspective on proposals for a world environment organization (10) Neither necessary, nor sufficient: Why organizational tinkering will not improve environmental governance (11) Conclusion