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Transboundary Environmental Negotiation: New Approaches to Global Cooperation. Lawrence Susskind, William Moomaw, Kevin Gallagher

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Language: English
Page: 496
ISBN: 0787960616, 9780787966591

From the Back Cover

Transboundary Environmental Negotiation is an important collection of articles generated by faculty and graduate students at MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. The contributors emphasize the ways in which global environmental treaty-making can be improved. They highlight new environmental problems that pose difficult global negotiation challenges and suggest new strategies for involving a range of nongovernmental actors in ways that can overcome the obstacles to transboundary environmentalism.

A definitive and cutting-edge resource on environmental negotiation Transboundary Environmental Negotiation:Includes a critique of the basic model of global environmental treaty-makingDiscusses the pros and cons of voluntary codes of managementExamines the role of the media in framing international environmental problemsShows how to make information technology an integral part of environmental treaty-makingReviews global enforcement strategies linked to domestic legal systemsOutlines capacity-building strategies of multilateral environmental agreementsShows how to link human rights and environmental qualityReveals the potential for environmental contributions to peace-makingThis landmark book will inspire advocates to push hard for new transboundary agreements on resource management, pollution reduction, and sustainable development needs.

About the Author

Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is visiting professor at Harvard Law School and vice-chair for instruction at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He is also the founder of the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

William Moomaw is professor of international environmental policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he directs the International Environmental and Resource Program. He is also director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts.

Kevin Gallagher is a research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.