The Global Politics of the Environment : Second Edition

Preface to the Second Edition x List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xii Introduction 1(222) Structure of the book 5(2) 1 From Stockholm to Rio to Johannesburg 7(22) Introduction 7(1) Before Stockholm 8(2) The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE), 1972 10(2) Stockholm to Rio 12(3) United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), 1992 15(7) Rio to New York 22(2) New York to Johannesburg 24(3) Conclusion 27(2) 2 The Global Politics of Conservation: Species, Resources and Habitat 29(31) Introduction 29(1) Protecting and conserving biodiversity 30(13) Sustainable living resources: 'forests and fish' 43(11) Common interest and global burden-sharing: desertification 54(4) Conclusion 58(2) 3 The Global Politics of Pollution 60(33) Hazardous waste and toxic chemicals 60(7) Oceans pollution: protecting the commons 67(3) Atmospheric pollutants 70(3) The global commons of the atmosphere: ozone depletion 73(6) The global commons of the atmosphere: climate change 79(13) Conclusion 92(1) 4 Global Environmental Governance: The State and Institutional Design 93(20) Introduction 93(2) The United Nations 95(7) Institutional reform 102(6) The limits to reform: a critical position 108(5) 5 Global Environmental Governance: Democratization and Local Voices 113(24) Science and environmental governance 114(2) Corporate environmentalism 116(3) Global civil society 119(6) The gender politics of environmental degradation 125(5) Humanity's hope? Indigenous peoples and the environment 130(6) Conclusion 136(1) 6 Normative Challenges: Justice, Obligations and Rights 137(20) Environmental inequity and transnational harm 138(3) The rights and obligations of states 141(4) Expanding the normative framework: a rights-based approach 145(10) Conclusion 155(2) 7 The International Political Economy of the Environment 157(21) Sustainable development 157(10) North and South: managing the 'common agenda' 167(7) Common but differentiated responsibilities 174(4) 8 Strategies for Sustainable Development 178(23) Enhancing the flow of resources to developing countries 178(7) The global economy and structural reform 185(12) Market-based financial mechanisms 197(3) Conclusion 200(1) 9 Environmental Security 201(22) Introduction 201(1) Militarizing environmental politics: the environment and security 202(11) Demilitarizing security: securing the environment 213(9) Revisiting environmental security 222(1) 10 The Global Politics of the Environment 223(16) Problem-solving and critique 224(5) Interrogating the contemporary world order 229(6) Future conditional? 235(4) Further Reading 239(5) Bibliography 244(43) Index 287