ABSTRACT
The world is confronted with a number of very serious environmental problems. Some of them have been with us for a long time (soil pollution), others have only recently cropped up (climate change). Coping with them is a matter of great complexity. The objective of this chapter is to show in what way global regimes have been developed to deal with a number of them. We have selected our examples on the basis of three criteria: (1) significance from a global point of view; (2) representative of the whole set of global environmental problems; and (3) illustrative of the dynamics of organizing effective global regimes.
