Kaiser, Wolfram / Meyer, Jan-Henrik: International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the 20th Century. New York: Berghahn 2017 (original) (raw)

Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies. Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His recent publications include Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot). Jan-Henrik Meyer is Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the University of Copenhagen for the research project “History of Nuclear Energy and Society” (HoNESt). He has been an Associate Professor at NTNU Trondheim, a Rachel Carson Fellow at LMU Munich and a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. Series: Volume 11, Environment in History: International Perspectives Subject: Environmental Studies 20th Century History Area: LC: TD170.2 .I559 2016 BISAC: POL044000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Public Policy/Environmental Policy; SCI026000 SCIENCE/Environmental Science; HIS037070 HISTORY/Modern/20th Century BIC: RNK Conservation of the environment; HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer Chapter 1. From Nature to Environment: International Organisations and Environmental Protection before Stockholm Jan-Henrik Meyer Chapter 2. Environmental Problem-solvers? Scientists and the Stockholm Conference Enora Javaudin Chapter 3. Developing World Environmental Cooperation: The Founex Seminar and the Stockholm Conference Michael W. Manulak Chapter 4. Only One Earth: The Holy See and Ecology Luigi Piccioni Chapter 5. Sometimes it’s the Economy, Stupid! International Organizations, Steel and the Environment Wolfram Kaiser Chapter 6. Making the Polluter Pay: How the European Communities Established Environmental Protection Jan-Henrik Meyer Chapter 7. (Re-) Thinking Environment and Economy: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Sustainable Development Iris Borowy Chapter 8. Towards ‘Sustainable’ Development: The United Nations, INGOs, and the Crafting of the World Conservation Strategy Stephen Macekura Chapter 9. Protecting the Southern Ocean Ecosystem: The Environmental Protection Agenda of Antarctic Diplomacy and Science Alessandro Antonello Chapter 10. Controlling the Agenda: Science, Policy and the Making of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change David G. Hirst Conclusion: Setting Agendas, Building Institutions, and Shaping Binding International Commitments Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer Bibliography Index