1st Edition

The Environment and International Relations

Edited By Mark Imber, John Vogler Copyright 1996
    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations.
    This book begins by looking at the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in international relations to the study of the environment. It analyzses a wide range of approaches from the debate between neo-realism and liberal institutionalism to the significant connections between gender and global environmental change. The book goes on to consider a range of key international processes, discussing the monitoring and implementation of environmental agreements, the place of ideology in negotiations and the role of international organisations.

    1.Introduction, The Environment in International Relations: Legacies and Contentions 2. Environment and Security as a Universal Value: Implications for International Theory 3. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Change 4. IR Theory: Neo-Realism, Neo-Institutionalism and the Climate Change Convention 5. Inernational Relations, Social Ecology and the Globalisation of Environmental Change 6. Gender and Environmental Change: Are Women the Key to Safe-Guarding the Planet? 7. Who Cares About the Environment? 8. The Environment and the United Nations 9. Between the Devil and the Law of the Sea: The Generation of Global Environmental Norms 10. The International Research Enterprise and Global Enviornmental Change: Climate Change Policy as Research Process 11. Environmental Regimes: Effectiveness and Implementation Review 12. Hegemonic Ideology and the International Timber Association

    Biography

    John Vogler is Professor of International Relations at Liverpool John Moores University and convenor of the ESRC International Relations of Global Environmental Change group., Mark F.Imber is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.