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This unique dictionary and introduction to Global Environmental Governance (GEG), written and compiled by two veterans of the international stage, provides a compilation of over 5500 terms, organizations and acronyms, drawn from hundreds of official sources. An introductory essay frames the major is...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saunier, Richard E.
Otros Autores: Meganck, Richard Albert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, ©2009.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Environmental responsibility > International cooperation > Dictionaries.
Environmental policy > International cooperation > Dictionaries.
Globalization > Environmental aspects > Dictionaries.
Environmental management > International cooperation > Dictionaries.
Sustainable development > Government policy > Dictionaries.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Environmental management > International cooperation
Environmental policy > International cooperation
Environmental responsibility > International cooperation
Globalization > Environmental aspects
Sustainable development > Government policy
Electronic books.
dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Biographies
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Notes
  • Part One Global Environmental Governance: An Essay
  • Global Environmental Governance: An Essay
  • Governance and government
  • Chaos
  • Chaos is born
  • Complexity
  • Notes
  • Part Two A Dictionary of Selected Terms, Concepts, Jargon, Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in Global Environmental Governance
  • Sources Used to Develop the Dictionary and List of Acronyms
  • Dictionary
  • Aa
  • Bb
  • Cc
  • Dd
  • Ee
  • Ff
  • Gg
  • Hh
  • Ii
  • Jj
  • Kk
  • Ll
  • Mm
  • Nn
  • Oo
  • Pp
  • Qq
  • Rr
  • Ss
  • Tt
  • Uu
  • Vv
  • Ww
  • Xx
  • Yy
  • Zz
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1: Water
  • A Thematic Case Study in GEG
  • Introduction
  • A short history of global water meetings: Process
  • The architecture of global water governance
  • Water as a human right
  • Is a global water regime needed?
  • Implementation: What would a global water regime look like?
  • Notes
  • Appendix 2: Selected Intergovernmental Environmental Agreements
  • Early agreements
  • UNCED (1992) preparations
  • UNCED related documents
  • Social issues
  • Economic issues
  • Natural resources
  • Hazardous wastes
  • Oceans
  • Appendix 3: Principles and Values of Global Environmental Governance
  • United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
  • Declaration of Rio de Janeiro on Environment and Development, June 1992
  • Specialized Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development, December 1996
  • Millennium Values and Development Goals (2000)
  • Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, September 2002
  • Appendix 4: Major Civil Society Alternative Agreements
  • Declarations and General Principles
  • Education, Communication and Cooperation
  • Alternative economic issues
  • Consumption, poverty, food and subsistence
  • Climate, energy and waste
  • Land and natural resources
  • Marine and ocean issues
  • Biodiversity and biotechnology
  • Cross-sectoral issues
  • Appendix 5: Documenting Governance
  • Appendix 6: Random Definitions
  • Environment
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem
  • Sustainable development.

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