Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses

Provides an analytical framework for examining how individuals, groups, and nations create environmental dislocations, and how nations can work together to solve ecological problems that cross their borders. Contributors include Peter Haas, Robert North, Maurice Strong and Edith Brown Weiss.

A comprehensive look at the incredibly complex set of issues that are encompassed by the concepts of global environment and sustainable development. These issues are examined in systematic, thoroughly documented fashion... There are throughout this volume rich veins of data and bases for addressing what are arguably the most compelling problems facing the community of nations at the end of the twentieth century. --Philip Shabecoff, Nature