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, ozo ne depletion, and acid rain from 1957 (The International Geophysical Year) until 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.

Full Product Details

9780262194440

Table of Contents

Reviews

With these volumes, our understanding of the geography of global atmospheric problems expands considerably. -- Elizabeth R. Desombre, American Political Science Review 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 ...important works of scholarship [that] will prove to be very valuable additions to our body of environmental management knowledge. -- Robert John Klancko, Environmental Practice ...vast, dense, and richly engaging. -- Ken Conca, Environmental Change & Security Project Report

Author Information

The Social Learning Group comprises thirty-seven scholars from ten nations. This book was edited by William C. Clark and Nancy Dickson, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Jill Jager, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Germany; and Josee van Eijndhoven, Rathenau Institute for Technology Assessment and Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available