International environmental governance
Subtitle: towards UNEPO
By: by Bharat H. Desai
Series: International environmental law -- volume 10
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9789004214545; 9789004214552
Subjects: International Environmental law; Environmental management; International cooperation; Environmental policy; United Nations Environment Programme
Description: This book offers a significant contribution to practitioners and scholars involved in international debates regarding environmental governance. Clarifying the insufficiency of the 1972 UN General Assemblys model of a small UN Environment Programme in helping nations stem the accumulating degradation of the environment across the globe, the work poses the remaining question: how should international environmental governance be accomplished? The volume is timely in its examination of the post-Rio+20 period, and furthermore addresses the vital issue of the evolution of UNEP into a specialized agency; designated the UN Environment Protection Organization (UNEPO), a new mandate to revive the UN Trusteeship Council to supervise environment and the commons, as well as law-making and institution-building processes as reflected in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and other multilateral forms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.