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Examines how the EU functions when it participates in international environmental negotiations. In particular, this book looks at the internal EU decision-making process with regard to international negotiations that lead to multilateral environmental agreements. It is aimed at a readership interested in EU politics and decision-making.

In this book, which is unique in its scope, diversity and the wealth of information it contains, contributors from a variety of academic disciplines tackle an issue of enduring importance to the protection of biodiversity and enhance our understanding of humanity's capacity to reconcile its various aspirations and halt the destructive path upon which it is set.

Addresses questions of pandemics, essential medicines and disease eradication through detailed case studies of a range of issues providing coverage of critical and rapidly spreading infectious diseases and 'lifestyle' illnesses such as SARS, Polio Plus and tobacco control all of which are at the centre of the global health challenge.

Examines the coordination of renewable energy policies in the European Union using a theoretical approach to explain national policy making. The author asks, why are national support instruments for electricity from renewable energy sources converging, even though the harmonisation of these frameworks at the European level has failed?

Examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994. This work studies the linkages between land degradation and poverty, the role of civil society and good governance in implementing the UNCCD and the various approaches to fighting desertification. It synthesises the main strengths and weaknesses of the UNCCD.

Studies the new dimensions of resource conflict between Canada and the United States, accounting for the emergence of new bilateral environmental issues and detailing how trade liberalization has fostered both disputes and policy convergence. This work also examines the shifts in America towards a unilateral foreign policy.

Notwithstanding international treaties and conventions, species continue to vanish. These essays reflect the ten-year period over which the key convention on preserving biodiversity has been fully operational and largely ineffective.

This study explores how the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) actually works on the ground affecting corporate climate strategies. It covers general sector responses as well as systematic comparative studies of companies across the sectors.

Adopts two constructivist perspectives, norm-centred and discourse, to explore social construction of climate change. This book offers an understanding of why efforts to mitigate climate change have failed. It aims to provide academics and policy makers with an understanding of this important topic.

Multipolar governance permits a number of important states to have significantly more economic and political clout than others, but among them there is hardly any hierarchy. This book investigates the relationship between the emergence of a multipolar world order and the enormous challenges of global energy governance that the world is facing.

In recent years, the debate on the establishment of a new international agency on environmental protection has gained substantial momentum. This book presents a balanced selection of articles of the leading participants in this debate, including both major supporters and opponents of creating a WEO.

Environmental and energy policies have become significant in European and North American politics. This book uses case studies that embrace climate change, product standards, chemical regulations, renewable energy policies, food safety and genetically-modified organisms to examine areas of conflict and cooperation in transatlantic relationship.

Global environmental politics has been determined by a strong increase of global governance systems in the past few decades. This study draws a causal connection between the activities of non-state actors and legitimacy. It also includes chapters that explore whether the prime hypothesis can be verified.

Why do nation states participate differentially in International Environmental Agreements (IEAs), and how can we achieve greater international environmental cooperation through enhanced participation in IEAs? Drawing upon the basic tenets of Realism and Liberalism, and using regression analyses, this study presents the Incentives-Capabilities model for explaining state participation in IEAs. The model highlights the importance of both IEA design and state capabilities to engage effectively in international environmental cooperation. While there may be domestic structural constraints that limit a stateΓÇÖs capability of ratifying an IEA (e.g. low human development, high foreign aid dependency, high levels of corruption, etc.), the design of IEAs, through a proper structuring of incentives, may make ratification a choice that furthers the national interest of the state, and thus result in successful participation. This book theorizes international environmental cooperation based on the concepts of an international system structured by global interdependence and interconnectedness, and through national interest calculations built on the twin objectives of enhancing domestic capabilities (through resources transfer or market advantage, for example) as well as maintaining development trajectories. A key policy outcome of this study is that effective global environmental protection is premised upon strategies for furthering human development, equity, and sustainable development.

This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africa's health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile Africa'.