Transnational Environmental Policy : Reconstructing Ozone

ISBN-13: 9780415224239 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 272 str.

Reiner Grundmann

Opis

This volume analyzes a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making; the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about problem-solving capacities of industrialized countries and the world society as a whole.

Spis treści

1. Social Science and Global Environmental Problems  2. Ozone Science  3. Ozone Controversies  4. Country Comparison  5. The Road to Montreal  6. The Montreal Protocol and After  7. Lessons  8. Epilogue: The Example of Climate

O autorze

Reiner Grundmann is Reader in Sociology ASG at Aston University.