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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348220803321

Autore

Imber Mark

Titolo

The Environment and International Relations [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 1995

ISBN

1-134-82779-2

1-280-16471-9

0-203-99552-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Global environmental change series The environment and international relations

Altri autori (Persone)

VoglerJohn

Disciplina

333.7

363.7

Soggetti

Environmental policy

International relations

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Environmental Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Environmental security as a universal value; 3 International political economy and global environmental change; 4 IR theory; 5 International relations, social ecology and the globalisation of environmental change; 6 Gender and environmental change; 7 Who cares about the environment?; 8 The environment and the United Nations; 9 Between the devil and the law of the sea; 10 The international research enterprise and global environmental change; 11 Environmental regimes

12 Hegemonic ideology and the International Tropical Timber OrganisationIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations. This book begins by looking at the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in international relations



to the study of the environment. It analyzses a wide range of approaches from the debate between neo-realism and liberal institutionalism to the significant connections between gender and global environmental change. The book goes on to con