Conclusion: Setting Agendas, Building Institutions and Shaping Binding International Commitments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century 1
6. CHAPTER 1 From Nature to Environment: International Organizations and Environmental Protection before Stockholm 31
7. CHAPTER 2 Environmental Problem-Solvers? Scientists and the Stockholm Conference 74
8. CHAPTER 3 Developing World Environmental Cooperation: The Founex Seminar and the Stockholm Conference 103
9. CHAPTER 4 Only One Earth: The Holy See and Ecology 128
10. CHAPTER 5 Sometimes it’s the Economy, Stupid! International Organizations, Steel and the Environment 153
11. CHAPTER 6 Making the Polluter Pay: How the European Communities Established Environmental Protection 182
12. CHAPTER 7 (Re-)Thinking Environment and Economy: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Sustainable Development 211
13. CHAPTER 8 Towards ‘Sustainable’ Development: The United Nations, INGOs and the Crafting of the World Conservation Strategy 241
14. CHAPTER 9 Protecting the Southern Ocean Ecosystem: The Environmental Protection Agenda of Antarctic Diplomacy and Science 268
15. CHAPTER 10 Controlling the Agenda: Science, Policy and the Making of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 293
16. Conclusion: Setting Agendas, Building Institutions and Shaping Binding International Commitments 317
17. Index 333