Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation) [Paperback]

Nazli Choucri (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation | Publication Date: September 25, 1995

Global Accord is the first holistic assault on a complex set of environmental issues. It provides a much-needed analytical framework for examining how individuals, groups, and nations create environmental dislocations, and how nations can work together to solve ecological problems that cross their borders. The fifteen essays cover theoretical and empirical dimensions, actors and processes, law and economics, and international institutions and systems.Effective management of global environmental problems may become the most significant institutional challenge for the twenty-first century. The purpose of this book - the first in a series of scholarly investigations of global environmental accord - is to develop an integrated approach to interactions between environmental and social systems, and between ecological and decision systems, in order to untangle the connections between human actions and environmental consequences and to improve prospects for concerted global responses to environmental problems. Each chapter highlights the importance of recognizing differences in perspectives and priorities among nations and of articulating norms for management of the global environment.Nazli Choucri is Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Technology and Development Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Contributors: Hayward R. Alker, Jr. Garry D. Brewer. Abram Chayes. Nazli Choucri. Michael E. Colby. Peter M. Haas. Thomas F. HomerDixon. Robert C. North. Jerome Rothenberg. Francisco R. Sagasti. Eugene B. Skolnikoff. Maurice Strong. Jan Sungren. Edith Brown Weiss. Oran R. Young. David G. Victor.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A comprehensive look at the incredibly complex set of issues that are encompassed by the concepts of global environment and sustainable development. These issues are examined in systematic, thoroughly documented fashion.... There are throughout this volume rich veins of data and bases for addressing what are arguably the most compelling problems facing the community of nations at the end of the twentieth century." -- Philip Shabecoff , Nature

About the Author

Nazli Choucri is Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Technology and Development Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press (September 25, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262531348
• ISBN-13: 978-0262531344
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,723,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)