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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
The View from the South : Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics
The View from the South : Developing Countries in Global Environmental Politics
This chapter examines the collective behavior of developing countries in global environmental politics. In the now burgeoning literature on global environmental politics, no single aspect’s importance is acknowledged as consistently but treated as casually—even shabbily—as the role of developing countries. Although increasing attention has been paid to the behavior of specific developing countries (particularly large and fast-growing economies within this group, and most particularly China and India) regarding particular environmental issues, little analysis exists of how this group of countries—often referred to as “the South” or “the Third World”—tends to behave collectively in global environmental politics.
Of course, developing countries are far from being ...
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