Overview

This two-volume work examines how the interplay of ideas and actions applied to environmental problems has laid the foundations for global environmental management. It looks at how ideas, interests, and institutions affect management practice; how management capabilities in other areas affect the ability to deal with specific environmental issues; and how learning affects society's approach to the global environment. The book focuses on efforts to deal with climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain from 1957 (The International Geophysical Year) through to 1992 (the UN Conference on Environment and Development). The settings include Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and international environmental organizations. Topics include problem framing, agenda setting, issue attention, risk assessment, monitoring, option assessment, goal and strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Volume 1 provides an overview of the project, of global environmental management in general, and of the three central environmental issues studied; it also contains the individual country studies. Volume 2 contains the management function studies and the book's conclusion.

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...very valuable additions to our body of environmental management knowledge.-Robert John Klancko, Environmental Practice ...vast, dense, and richly engaging...breaks important new ground in the effort to understand national responses to global challenges.-Ken Conca , Environmental Change & Security Project Report * Reviews * ...very valuable additions to our body of environmental management knowledge.-Robert John Klancko, Environmental Practice * Reviews *

This two-volume set identifies, explores, and maps an exciting new frontier in the social science of global environmental politics. -- Renald B. Mitchell, Global Environmental Politics

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The Social Learning Group is an international team of scholars conducting collaborativere search on issues related to the management of global environmental risks.

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