The politics of international environmental management - A. Underdal

Many of the major environmental challenges facing governments
and societies today are collective problems, calling for
joint solutions. However, even when effective solutions can be
found only through joint efforts, international cooperation is often
hard to establish and maintain. This makes it all the more important
to understand the conditions for `success' and the causes of
`failure'.

This book examines some of the political mechanisms at work in the
formation and operation of international environmental regimes. What
are the major factors that shape the national positions that
governments bring to the negotiating table? How do the international
institutions and negotiation processes through which these preferences
and positions are adjusted and aggregated affect outcomes? What are
the main mechanisms determining whether or not international
environmental agreements are successfully implemented at the domestic
level?

The Politics of International Environmental Management is
published in cooperation with the European Science Foundation.