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The Global Environment and World Politics

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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The Global Environment and World Politics

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Environmental issues are increasingly important factors in world politics - just think of the intense speculation over the climate change discussions at the forthcoming G8 summit. The study of global environmental politics draws on a variety of academic traditions. It uses international relations theory to look at the concerns and actions of states, but has also had to find a variety of new concepts and perspectives in order to explain issues unique to the study of the environment. Here, DeSombre examines four important aspects of the field: international environmental cooperation; the relationship between the environment and security; the issues of science, uncertainty and risk; and the role of non-state actors. In the second half of the book she examines these issues through the use of case studies on specific problems facing the global environment, including global change, the politics of whaling, the protection of Amazonian biodiversity and acid rain in Europe and North America.

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1441154728

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Global Environmental Institutions

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Global Environmental Institutions

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Global Environmental Institutions continues to provide the most accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment. Fully updated throughout to reflect the latest environmental issues, the second edition includes substantial new material on developments in international agreements and how institutional mechanisms have evolved in the past 10 years, including the creation of the new Sustainable Development Goals, the Minamata Convention on Mercury, and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This second edition maintains the clear structure of the first edition, examining: • the underlying causes of global environmental problems • the creation of global environmental institutions • the effectiveness of action undertaken by these institutions. Providing an overview of the United Nations Environment Programme and the other entities within the UN that play important roles in global environmental governance, it also examines institutions clustered by issue area, introducing institutions that focus on protecting endangered species and biodiversity, govern the ocean environment (focusing on the atmosphere), and regulate the transboundary movement of hazardous substances. Concluding with an updated chapter on emerging issues and future directions drawing on the latest scholarship in the field, and written by an acknowledged expert in the field, Global Environmental Institutions is essential reading for students of environmental politics and international organizations.

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Routledge

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1317372395

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Global Environmental Institutions

By: Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies Elizabeth R DeSombre,Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Global Environmental Institutions

By: Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies Elizabeth R DeSombre,Elizabeth R. DeSombre

There has been a concurrent growth in interest in the institutions that deal with global environmental issues. A vast number of international organizations address these matters; this volume provides an overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment. It first considers the United Nations Environment Programme and the other entities within the United Nations that play important roles in global environmental governance. It then examines institutions clustered by issue area, introducing institutions that focus on protecting endangered species and biodiversity, those that govern the ocean environment, those focusing on the atmosphere, and a recent set of institutions that regulate the transboundary movement of hazardous substances. It concludes with current debates on financing international environmental action, gaining widespread participation by states, and the question of whether the institutional structure of global environmental governance can, and should, be fundamentally reformed. The volume as a whole focuses on: the underlying causes of global environmental problems the creation of global environmental institutions the effectiveness of action undertaken by these institutions. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, Global Environmental Institutions is essential reading for students of environmental politics and international organizations.

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1134243081

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems. All things being equal, we are happy to protect environmental resources; in fact, we tend to prefer our air cleaner and our species protected. But despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our everyday lives. Why do we behave in ways that cause environmental harm? It is often easy and inexpensive to behave in ways with bad environmental consequences, but more difficult and costly to take environmentally friendly actions. The incentives we face, some created by the nature of environmental resources, some by social and political structures, often do not make environmentally beneficial behavior the most likely choice. Furthermore, our behavior is conditioned by habits and social norms that fail to take environmental protection into consideration. In this book, Elizabeth R. DeSombre integrates research from political science, sociology, psychology, and economics to understand why bad environmental behavior makes perfect sense. As she notes, there is little evidence that having more information about environmental problems or the way an individual's actions contribute to them changes behavior in meaningful ways, and lack of information is rarely the underlying cause that connects behavior to harm. In some cases such knowledge may even backfire, as people come to see themselves as powerless to address huge global problems and respond by pushing these issues out of their minds. The fact that causing environmental problems is never anyone's primary goal means that people are happy to stop causing them if the alternative behavior still accomplishes their underlying goals. If we can figure out why those problems are caused, when no one intends to cause them, we can develop strategies that work to shift behavior in a positive direction. Over the course of this book, DeSombre considers the role of structure, incentives, information, habit, and norms on behavior in order to formulate lessons about how these factors lead to environmentally problematic behavior, and what understanding their effects can tell us about ways to change behavior. To prevent or address environmental problems, we have to understand why even good people do bad environmental things.

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Oxford University Press

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0190636297

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9780190636296

What is Environmental Politics?

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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What is Environmental Politics?

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people and ecosystems? Scientific knowledge and technological advances alone cannot tackle these environmental challenges; they also involve difficult political choices and trade-offs both locally and globally. What is Environmental Politics? introduces students to the different ways society attempts to deal with the political decisions needed to prevent or recover from environmental damage. Across its six chapters leading environmental scholar Elizabeth DeSombre explains what makes environmental problems, such as climate change, overfishing or deforestation, particularly challenging to address via political processes, what types of political structures are more or less likely to prioritize protecting the environment, and how effective political intervention can improve environmental conditions and the lives of people who depend on them. It will be a vital resource for students new to the field of environmental politics as well as readers interested in protecting the future of our planet.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509534156

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Saving Global Fisheries

Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Saving Global Fisheries

Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Elizabeth R. DeSombre

A proposal for a new global approach for fisheries focused on reducing fishing capacity and providing incentives for long-term sustainability. The Earth's oceans are overfished, despite more than fifty years of cooperation among the world's fishing nations. There are too many boats chasing too few fish. In Saving Global Fisheries, J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombre analyze the problem of overfishing and offer a provocative proposal for a global regulatory and policy approach. Existing patterns of international fisheries management try to limit the number of fish that can be caught while governments simultaneously subsidize increased fishing capacity, focusing on fisheries as an industry to be developed rather than on fish as a resource to be conserved. Regionally based international management means that protection in one area simply shifts fishing efforts to other species or regions. Barkin and DeSombre argue that global rather than regional regulation is necessary for successful fisheries management and emphasize the need to reduce subsidies. They propose an international system of individual transferable quotas that would give holders of permits an interest in the long-term health of fish stocks and help create a sustainable level of fishing capacity globally.

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MIT Press

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0262018640

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9780262018647

Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy

Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy

Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Looking at major regulations on endangered species, air pollution and fisheries conservation, this book determines which one the US has attempted to internationalize and how successful this has been. It underlines the importance of regulated industries in the creation of environmental policy.

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0262541076

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Fish

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre,J. Samuel Barkin

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Fish

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre,J. Samuel Barkin

Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are being overfished or fished to their very limit. Governments have tried to tackle the problem with limited success. Many of their actions have been counterproductive or ineffective. What will happen to global fisheries, and the populations that depend on them, as we continue to catch more fish than the oceans can reproduce? This book explores the causes of the current crisis in the world's fisheries, and what needs to be done to address the situation. It explains the structure of the fishing industry, the incentives that persuade individuals or companies to catch fish at unsustainable levels, and illuminates the problems created by governmental efforts to use fishing policy as a tool for economic development or to win votes in domestic elections. It also looks at the role of aquaculture in either decreasing or increasing the pressure on wild fish stocks. The dire condition of fish stocks has led governments and consumer organizations to consider new approaches to protect the global supply of fish. DeSombre and Barkin conclude by showing how such methods, along with new forms of international regulation and informed decision-making by consumers, all have an important part to play in rewarding and thus encouraging sustainable fishing behaviour in the future.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745637779

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Regulatory Capture, digital original edition

A BIT of Saving Global Fisheries

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Elizabeth R. Desombre

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A BIT of Saving Global Fisheries

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Elizabeth R. Desombre

The Earth's oceans are overfished, despite more than fifty years of cooperation among the world's fishing nations. There are too many boats chasing too few fish. In this BIT, J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth R. DeSombre offer a provocative proposal for a global regulatory and policy approach, describing the “capture” of regulation by industry and offering a plan for a global institution for fisheries regulation.

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Why do people behave in ways that cause environmental harm? Despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our everyday lives. This book looks at how social structures, incentives, information, habits, attitudes, norms, and the inherent characteristics of environmental resources explain and influence how we behave, and how those causes influence what we can do to change behavior.

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Saving Global Fisheries

Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability

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The Global Environment and World Politics

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Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy

Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power

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Fish

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre,J. Samuel Barkin

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By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre,J. Samuel Barkin

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The Global Environment and World Politics

The Global Environment and World Politics

Global Environmental Institutions

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

What is Environmental Politics?

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Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy

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Regulatory Capture, digital original edition

Regulatory Capture, digital original edition

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

Saving Global Fisheries

Saving Global Fisheries

The Global Environment and World Politics

The Global Environment and World Politics

Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy

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