International Environmental Governance

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Contents: Introduction Part I History of Environmental Governance: Methods to expedite environmental protection: international ecostandards, Paolo Contini and Peter H. Sand One year after Stockholm: an ecological approach to management, Maurice F. Strong. Part II Nature of Environmental Governance Problem: The tragedy of the commons, Garrett Harden The struggle to govern the commons: tragedy of the commons, Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom and Paul C. Stern The environmental information needs of the decision-maker, Martin W. Holdgate. Part III Realism and Power Politics: The management of international affairs, Kenneth N. Waltz. Part IV Institutional Bargaining: The politics of international regime formation: managing natural resources and the environment, Oran R. Young Institutions for the earth: promoting international environmental protection, Marc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas and Robert O. Keohane The interest-based explanation of international environmental policy, Detlef Sprintz and Tapani Vaahtoranta Constructing effective environmental regimes, George W. Downs. Part V Scientific Governance, Learning to learn, Peter M. Haas and Ernst B. Haas The role of science in environmental regimes: the case of LRTAP, Rolf Lidskog and GA ran Sundqvist Conclusions:patterns of regime effectiveness, Arild Underdal. Part VI Private Governance: Private environmental governance and international relations: exploring the links, Robert Falkner Bargains old and new: multinational corporations in global governance, David L. Levy and Aseem Prakash Talking with the donkey: cooperative approaches to environmental protection, Kathryn Harrison Legitimacy and the privatization of environmental governance: how non-state market-driven (NSMD) governance systems gain rule-making authority, Benjamin Cashore Green by choice? Cross-national variations in firms' responses to EMS-based environmental regimes, Kelly Kollman and Aseem Prakash The privatization of global environmental governance: