Nation-states and the global environment : new approaches to international environmental history /

Nation-states are failing to resolve global problems that transcend the abilities of single governments or even groups of governments to address. This book argues that this dilemma is not as new as is sometimes claimed. It offers crucial context and even lessons for present-day debates about resolvi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bsumek, Erika Marie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Environmental policy > International cooperation.
Conservation of natural resources > International cooperation.
Environmentalism > History.
Human ecology > History.
Conservation des ressources naturelles > Coopération internationale.
Environnementalisme > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
Conservation of natural resources > International cooperation
Environmental policy > International cooperation
Environmentalism
Human ecology
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Europe's River: the Rhine as prelude to transnational cooperation and the Common Market / Mark Cioc
  • National sovereignty, the International Whaling Commission, and the Save the Whales movement / Kurk Dorsey
  • Global borders and the fish that ignore them: the Cold War roots of overfishing / Carmel Finley
  • Making parks out of making wars: transnational nature conservation and environmental diplomacy in the twenty-first century / Greg Bankoff
  • Going global after Vietnam: the end of Agent Orange and the rise of an international environmental regime / David Zierler
  • The paradox of US pesticide policy during the age of ecology / David Kinkela
  • The imperial politics of hurricane prediction: from Calcutta and Havana to Manila and Galveston, 1839-1900 / Gregory T. Cushman
  • Biological control, transnational exchange, and the construction of environmental thought in the United States, 1840-1920 / James E. McWilliams
  • Bird day: promoting the gospel of kindness in the Philippines during the American occupation / Janet M. Davis
  • Salmon migrations, Nez Perce nationalism, and the global economy / Benedict J. Colombi
  • The Brazilian Amazon and the transnational environment, 1940-1990 / Seth Garfield
  • International trash and the politics of poverty: conceptualizing the transnational waste trade / Emily Brownell
  • Afterword: international systems and their discontents.

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