Engaging countries strengthening compliance with international environmental accords /

Other Authors: Weiss, Edith Brown, 1942-, Jacobson, Harold Karan., EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 615 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Global environmental accords.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Series foreword
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1. A framework for analysis
  • 2. How compliance happens and doesn't happen domestically
  • 3. Managing compliance: A comparative perspective
  • 4. Contingent knowledge: Implications for implementation and compliance
  • 5. The five international treaties: A living history
  • 6. The United States: Taking environmental treaties seriously
  • 7. The European Union and compliance: A story in the making
  • 8. Japan: Consensus-based compliance
  • 9. The Soviet Union and the Russian federation: A natural experiment in environmental compliance
  • 10. Hungary: Political interest, bureaucratic will
  • 11. China: Implementation under economic growth and market reform
  • 12. India: Embedded capacities
  • 13. Cameroon's environmental accords: Signed, sealed, but undelivered
  • 14. Brazil: Regional inequalities and ecological diversity in a federal system
  • 15. Assessing the record and designing strategies to engage countries
  • References
  • Index.