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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819589403321

Autore

Boardman Robert <1945->

Titolo

Global regimes and nation-states : environmental issues in Australian politics / / Robert Boardman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa : , : Carleton University Press, , 1990

ISBN

1-283-53018-X

9786613842633

0-7735-8098-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages)

Collana

Carleton public policy series

Disciplina

363.7/056/0994

Soggetti

Environmental policy - Australia

Environmental protection - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Global Arrangements and the Australian Polity -- I. Australia and International Environmental Order -- 2. International Institutions: The Environment and Foreign Policy -- 3. The Politics of Conservation: Wildlife, Ecosystems and Heritage -- 4. The International Regulation of Pollution -- 5. Australia, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean -- II. Charting the Policy Process -- 6. Institution-building and Cooperative Federalism -- 7. Federal-state Diplomacy and International Institutions -- 8. The Management of International Conventions -- 9. Domestic Contexts: Environmental Constituencies in Australian Politics -- III. The Politics of Regimes --10. Australia and the Global Environment, 1965-1985.

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when environmental issues are prominent on many countries' political agendas, this book examines how one country, Australia, is handling the interplay between international and domestic environmental politics.