Publications Catalog 1993 - Global Environmental Management

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A New Generation of Environmental Leadership: Action for the Environment and the Economy

World Resources Institute

Underlying many of the environmental policies of the past decade has been the belief that a trade-off must exist between jobs and the environment. At the same time, the poverty and population needs of the developing world have been all but ignored, creating environmental, economic, and social problems that hinder development and threaten the global environment. Clearly, new approaches to national and international environmental protection are essential to meeting pressing economic and environmental-quality needs.

In this forward looking report, the World Resources Institute presents a creative yet practicable agenda that the new President and Congress can follow to improve environmental and economic performance at home and abroad. The ten initiatives presented here advance beyond the "command and control" environmental restrictions of the 1970s and 80s, promoting the use of market incentives--such as pollution charges--and other approaches that can lessen the burden of regulation, foster technological innovation, and generate new financial resources in both public and private sectors. Readers will find in this report innovative proposals involving environmental technology, green fees, regulatory reform, renewable energy, agricultural reform, subsidy phase-outs, a national biodiversity strategy, new policies toward developing countries, global environmental protection, and population policies.

1993
40 pages, large-format paperback
ISBN 0-915825-92-9
Order Code WRNGP, $12.95


Forging International Agreements: The Role of Institutions in Environment and Development

Lee A. Kimball

Global environmental protection and sustainable development require multilateral cooperation. International institutions--particularly those of the UN system--are important vehicles for developing effective policy agreements at global and regional levels and facilitating the financial and technical support needed to back them up. The system as it exists today, however, is largely inadequate to this task.

Forging International Agreement highlights the present and future challenges facing the international institutional system and pinpoints the shortcomings in existing arrangements. The author recommends reforms in monitoring and assessment, environmental management, integrated planning for sustainable development, and building national capacities in all these areas. This study emphasizes the need for performance reviews in all countries and international agencies to increase accountability, to inform ongoing reform within the UN system, and to achieve more effective global environmental governance in general.

Lee Kimball is a Senior Associate in WRI's Institutions Program.

l992
35 pages, large-format paperback
ISBN 0-915825-82-1
Order Code KIFIP, $12.95


Lessons Learned in Global Environmental Governance

Peter H. Sand

No one nation acting alone can meaningfully address such global challenges as climate change, ozone depletion, ocean and atmospheric pollution, biotic impoverishment, land degradation, and tropical deforestation. The increasing need for international solutions and cooperation raises difficult but important questions about current international efforts to protect the environment and promote sustainable development. Many hold that existing programs and institutions must be greatly strengthened to respond effectively to the 1990's and beyond. Lessons Learned takes stock of significant international environmental initiatives to date and highlights innovative features of transnational regimes for setting and implementing standards.

Peter Sand is Senior Environment Officer and Chief of the Air Pollution Sector at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

1990
60 pages, large-format paperback
ISBN 0-915825-55-4
Order Code SALLP, $14.95


Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership

Edited by Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Seventy-six men and women from 18 countries, representing a spectrum of government, business, labor, academia, the media, and the professions gathered in April l990, for the seventy-seventh American Assembly, entitled Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership. For three days, they discussed how the United States should reorient its policies and relations toward other countries and international institutions to preserve the environment and cope with rapid global change. This book presents their findings. Chapters on population growth, deforestation and the loss of biological diversity, the ozone layer, energy and climate change, economics, and other critical trends spell out new approaches to international cooperation and regulation in response to the shift from traditional security concerns to a focus on collective global security.

Jessica Mathews is Vice President of World Resources Institute.

Published by Norton Press. Booksellers and wholesalers should order directly from the publisher.

1990
362 pages, paperback
ISBN O393-96093-5
Order Code MAPGP, $10.95


Southern Exposure: Deciding Antarctica's Future

Lee A. Kimball

For decades, the white continent has both remained a vast reference zone for measuring contaminants that increasingly pollute Earth and an encyclopedia of its geological and biological history. But Antarctica's legacy is not only geological and environmental; it is also political. The unique international policy-making and management processes governing this continent--comprising 10 percent of the Earth's surface--offer a prime example for crafting effective management systems to protect the global environment. Kimball reviews Antarctica's importance from a global perspective. She guides readers through the white continent's extraordinary system of governance and suggests ways to keep it durable and responsive in the face of increasing human activity in the region.

Lee Kimball is a Senior Associate in WRI's Institutions Program.

1990
39 pages, large-format paperback
ISBN 0-915825-59-7
Order Code KISEP, $12.95


In the U.S. Interest: Resources, Growth, and Security in the Developing World

Edited by Janet Welsh Brown

One billion more people will inhabit the planet by the year 2000, most of them in low-income Latin American, Asian, and African countries, whose fragile natural and economic resources are already perilously overburdened. If current trends continue, even competent democratic developing nations, such as Mexico and Egypt, will be unable to meet their people's basic needs by early in the next century.

Through incisive case studies of Mexico, the Philippines, Egypt, and Kenya, contributing authors demonstrate the fact that the United States is ultimately vulnerable to the economic, population, and environmental problems plaguing the developing world and that solutions will not be found without new levels and forms of cooperation between North and South. Brown examines a range of options for the United States, including trade, debt management, and foreign assistance, and offers concrete recommendations for international cooperation for development.

Janet Welsh Brown is a Senior Associate with the Economics and Institutions Program at World Resources Institute.

Published by Westview Press. Booksellers and wholesalers should order directly from the publisher.

1990
214 pages, paperback
ISBN 08133-1053-9
Order Code BRIUP, $16.95