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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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)
part Section B|586 pages
International and Regional Treaties, Conventions, Protocols, and Agreements
part Section C|108 pages
Important International Organizations and Environmental Activities