International environmental policy: emergence and dimensions
This book traces the emergence of the environment as a subject of international policy and action and formulates guidelines for narrowing the gap between present perceptions of the environment and new policies for protecting it. In the last decade numerous books dealt with the environment as a scholarly discipline, as the basis of a social movement, and as a major policy concern for government, nongovernmental groups, and private institutions. Most of these studies, however, concentrated on environmental issues and related policy on a national level, ignoring the scope of the contrasting international environmental movements and avoiding authoritative formulation of global policy in relation to recent developments and problems on the national level. This book comprehensively surveys the global, international movement for protection of the human environment. It is a history of international cooperation on environmental issues, describing the expanding dimensions of international environmental policy and its status at present and providing a permanent record of historical events of continuing policy and historical significance.
- OSTI ID:
- 5622552
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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