Global accord :

Global accord : environmental challenges and international responses / edited by Nazli Choucri. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993. - xxiv, 562 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Global environmental accords series . - Global environmental accords series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-541) and index.

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.

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Environmental policy--International cooperation.
Environmental protection--International cooperation.

HC79.E5 / G5915 1993

363.7/0526