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Book SynopsisThe interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates whether UNCED and its output were appropriate for averting global environmental and developmental catastrophe. The intellectual debate inside and outside UNCED has been dominated by powerful entrenched interests which marginalise rival interpretations of the crisis and block possible alternative ways forward. The crisis is therefore being tackled by a continuation of the very policies that largely caused it in the first place.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Beyond UNCED: An Introduction, Caroline Thomas; Chapter 2 Environment on the Periphery of International Relations: An Explanation, Steve Smith; Chapter 3 Global Environmental Degradation, Modernity and Environmental Knowledge, Julian Saurin; Chapter 4 Structural Adjustment Programmes and the UNCED Agenda: Explaining the Contradictions, John F. Devlin, Nonita T. Yap; Chapter 5 International Trade and the Environment: Issues, Perspectives and Challenges, Marc Williams; Chapter 6 The Market for Sulphur Dioxide Permits in the USA and UK, Alan Ingham; Chapter 7 The United Nations' Role in Sustainable Development, Mark F. Imber; Chapter 8 Letting the Genie Out: Local Government and UNCED, John Gordon; Chapter 9 International Environmental Regimes: Verification and Implementation Review, Owen Greene; Chapter 10 The Politics of Climate Change after UNCED, Matthew Paterson; Chapter 11 Population Dynamics and Environmental Degradation in Nepal: An Interpretation, Yagya Bahadur Karki; Chapter 12 Freshwater and the Post-UNCED Agenda, Darryl Howlett; Chapter 13 Environment, Development and Security, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu;
