The Environment and International Relations (Global Environmental Change Series)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 12
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS......Page 14
THE INSTITUTIONALIST MAINSTREAM......Page 19
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS VOLUME......Page 22
INTERESTS, VALUES AND NORMS......Page 25
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OR GLOBAL POLITICS?......Page 26
SCIENCE AND EPISTEMOLOGY......Page 29
CONCLUSION......Page 30
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 31
2 Environmental security as a universal value......Page 35
ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY......Page 36
VALUES......Page 41
THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS......Page 43
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 51
3 International political economy and global environmental change......Page 55
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE......Page 56
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY......Page 60
ORTHODOX INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE......Page 62
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE......Page 64
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY......Page 66
CONCLUSION......Page 70
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 71
4 IR theory......Page 75
CLIMATE CHANGE AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS......Page 76
NEOREALISM AND NEOLIBERAL INSTITUTIONALISM......Page 78
NEOREALISM, NEOLIBERAL INSTITUTIONALISM AND GLOBAL WARMING......Page 80
The domestic-international split......Page 84
Structure vs history......Page 85
Ontology......Page 86
Who is theory for?......Page 87
CONCLUSIONS......Page 88
NOTES......Page 89
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 91
5 International relations, social ecology and the globalisation of environmental change......Page 95
THE MEANING OF ‘ENVIRONMENT’......Page 99
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST ECONOMY......Page 103
GLOBALISATION AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION......Page 109
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 112
NOTES......Page 114
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 115
6 Gender and environmental change......Page 119
EVOLUTION OF WOMEN-ENVIRONMENT LINKS......Page 120
Women as the problem......Page 121
Women as victims......Page 123
Women as saviours......Page 126
COMMUNAL RATIONALITY......Page 128
HOLISTIC VS DUALISTIC MODES OF THOUGHT......Page 129
WOMEN’S ACTION IN DEFENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 130
THE IMPLICATIONS OF STRESSING WOMEN-ENVIRONMENT LINKS......Page 132
CONCLUSION......Page 135
NOTES......Page 137
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 138
IDEALISM, INTERESTS AND VALUES......Page 141
VALUES, SCIENCE AND POLITICS......Page 143
REALISM, GLOBALISM AND VALUES......Page 146
ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL NGOs......Page 152
CONCLUSION......Page 156
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 157
8 The environment and the United Nations......Page 160
THE CONCEPTUAL RATIONALE......Page 163
UN TASKS 1: DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY......Page 167
UN TASKS 2: ORGANISING SUSTAINABILITY......Page 170
THE LIMITATIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS......Page 172
NOTES......Page 174
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 175
9 Between the devil and the law of the sea......Page 177
THE OPTIONS: FRAMEWORK CONVENTIONS OR PACKAGE DEALS?......Page 178
NEGOTIATIONS—GAMES OR DEBATES?......Page 183
FACTORS IN THE GENERATION OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL NORMS......Page 185
RIO—AN ASSESSMENT......Page 187
NOTES......Page 190
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 191
10 The international research enterprise and global environmental change......Page 194
IN SEARCH OF ENERGY AND INFORMATION MARKETS: THE CONTEXT OF IPCC ADVICE......Page 195
A BRIEF HlSTORY OF SCIENTIFIC ADVICE ON CLIMATE CHANGE......Page 201
THE ADVISORY GROUP ON GREENHOUSE GASES AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE IPCC......Page 204
THE INSTITUTIONAL NATURE OF THE IPCC......Page 207
IPCC ADVICE, OR THE ART OF AMBIGUITY......Page 209
THE WMO AS A RESEARCH COORDINATOR AND SCIENCE-POLICY ADVISOR......Page 211
THE FRAMEWORK TREATY ON CLIMATE CHANGE......Page 212
CONCLUSIONS: THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC ADVICE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS......Page 214
NOTES......Page 216
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 218
11 Environmental regimes......Page 221
STUDYING INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL REGIMES......Page 222
EFFECTIVENESS AND INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN......Page 224
IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW MECHANISMS AND EFFECTIVENESS......Page 227
REVIEW AND OVERALL INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN......Page 234
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 238
HEGEMONIC AND COUNTER-HEGEM ONIC IDEOLOGIES......Page 241
THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT, 1983......Page 247
THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANISATION......Page 248
THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT, 1994......Page 254
THE ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGE TO THE HEGEMONIC IDEOLOGY......Page 255
NOTES......Page 257
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 259
Index......Page 262