The Tropical Timber Trade Regime
The Tropical Timber Trade Regime

Author: F. Gale

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1998-09-14

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0230371523

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Gale explains why international negotiations have not produced a sustainable solution to tropical rainforest degradation. Using an innovative, critical approach to international regimes, the author analyzes the structure and operation of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). He shows how the timber industry and producing- and consuming-country governments created a blocking alliance that favoured developmentalist interests and ideas. The ITTO bolstered this alliance by permitting environmentalists merely to voice, but not to negotiate, their concerns.

Earth Negotiations
Earth Negotiations

Author: Pamela S. Chasek

Publisher: United Nations University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9280810472

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Earth Negotiations develops a phased-process model that can enable greater understanding of the process by which international environmental agreements are negotiated. By breaking down the negotiating process into a series of phases and turning points, it is easier to analyze the roles of the different actors, the management of issues, the formation of groups and coalitions, and the art of consensus building. Six discernible phases and five associated turning points within the process of multilateral environmental negotiation are identified and explained. The model is then used to see if there is anything that occurs in the earlier phases of negotiation that affects subsequent phases and if there is anything in the process that may have an effect on the outcome. The overall goal is to determine what lessons can be learned from past cases of multilateral environmental negotiation in order to help both practitioners and scholars strengthen the negotiating process and the quality of its results.

Engaging Countries
Engaging Countries

Author: Edith Brown Weiss

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780262731324

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This study systematically examines how states implement and comply with international environmental accords.

Yearbook of the United Nations. 39. 1985 (1989)
Yearbook of the United Nations. 39. 1985 (1989)

Author: United Nations. Department of Public Information

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 1990-01-10

Total Pages: 1534

ISBN-13: 9780792305033

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Issued annually since 1946/47, the Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations, providing a comprehensive, one-volume account of the Organization's work. It includes details of United Nations activities concerning trade, industrial development, natural resources, food, science & technology, social development, population, environment, human settlements, children & legal questions, along with information on the work of each specialized agency in the United Nations family. The Yearbook is an indispensable guide to the UN.