International Environmental Agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale. The book explores the workings and outcomes of these agreements. It analyses key questions of why some problems are dealt with successfully and others ignored. The book discusses the most important agreements set up to address environmental problems in three areas: air, water and nature protection / biological diversity. It traces the history of agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol and its forerunners, and the UN Fish Stocks Agreement. It examines key policies and...

The experience of environmental governance is approached in Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance. The chapters look at existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and the broader constellation of partially networked institutions to better understand the involvement of individual actors and how to deepen the networks that include them to generate more effective governance. The book covers a wide range of issued pertaining to environmental governance...