ABSTRACT

This handbook is a one-stop, comprehensive guide to global initiatives for climate action. It examines policies to tackle climate change and the critical role various organizations play.

The volume:

  • Includes in-depth discussion of individual issues related to the environment
  • Highlights global initiatives, negotiations, and international organizations responsible for climate action, protecting marine and freshwater environment, protecting atmosphere and climate, conserving biological diversity, chemicals and wastes management, environmental governance, safeguarding against warfare and disasters
  • Debates on-ground implications of the international policies for the Global South
  • Brings together case studies from across the world
  • Presents a toolkit for environment practitioners to seek sustainable and practicable solutions to problems
  • Includes suggested readings for researchers
  • Brings together primary documents, supportive illustrations, graphs, and maps

The handbook will be an essential reference for scholars and researchers of environmental studies, environmental policy and governance, sustainability and resilience. It will also be indispensable for policy makers, think tanks and NGOs.

chapter I|32 pages

The Genesis of Environmental Muddle

part Section A|66 pages

Global Initiatives towards Environmental Protection

chapter III|2 pages

The Dawn

From Environmental Ignorance to Environmental Consciousness (Pre-Stockholm Era)

chapter VI|7 pages

The Evolution of Disaster Management

chapter VIII|8 pages

Providing Food and Water for All

part Section B|586 pages

International and Regional Treaties, Conventions, Protocols, and Agreements

part Section C|108 pages

Important International Organizations and Environmental Activities