Product Description

An account and strategic overview of the major political changes underway in the face of global environmental issues. The book delineates a new era of planetary management, showing how national interests will have to adapt to recognize the imperatives of the global consequences of actions. the author argues that this is already beginning to happen in the negotiations over the ozone layer and climate change. but as pressures increase through loss of biodiversity, water scarcity and depletion of vital resources such as fish, forests and topsoil, so too will the politics of planetary management override other issues.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2045725 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Review
"[This book] is timely... commendably fair.. And contains many lessons. Norman Moss manages bravely to pluck some positives from this rain forest of uncertainties." -- Financial Times, London

GREEN EVENTS
‘Accessible and authoritative...'

From the Publisher
'Global…details the first steps that governments took to reach international agreements on climate change and CO2 emissions...'
ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS

Customer Reviews

helpful,insightful,relevant information that is approachable
this book will appeal to both students and to the general public. the information and the manner in which it is written makes it an extremly useful tool to raise awareness of the problems we face and of how some of those problems may be addressed.It could be used in an environmental management course ,in a sustainable development course and to some extent in a sociology course.I personally have found that it has provided me with a better understanding of the complexity of the problem,but it has done so in easily understood language that makes it a highly approachable book.