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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450191403321

Titolo

Reforming international environmental governance [[electronic resource] ] : from institutional limits to innovative solutions / / edited by W. Bradnee Chambers and Jessica F. Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo ; ; New York, : United Nations University Press, c2005

ISBN

92-808-7090-4

1-4237-6605-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChambersW. Bradnee

GreenJessica F

Disciplina

363.7/0526

Soggetti

Environmental policy - International cooperation

Environmental law, International

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Foreword; List of contributors; Introduction: Toward an effective framework for sustainabledevelopment; 1 From environmental to sustainable development governance:Thirty years of coordination within the United Nations; 2 Clustering of multilateral environmental agreements: Potentialsand limitations; 3 Strengthening international environmental governance bystrengthening UNEP; 4 A World Environment Organization; 5 The World Trade Organization and global environmentalgovernance; 6 Judicial mechanisms: Is there a need for a World EnvironmentCourt?

7 Reforming the United Nations Trusteeship Council8 Expanding the mandate of the United Nations Security Council; Index

Sommario/riassunto

More than 500 international agreements and institutions now influence the governance of environmental problems ranging from climate change to persistent organic pollutants. The establishment of environmental institutions has been largely ad hoc, diffused, and somewhat chaotic because the international community has addressed key environmental challenges as and when they have arisen. The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002



underscored the need to reform the current institutional framework for environmental governance, but failed to come up with any substantive recomm