This volume examines the environmental issues currently under debate in the international arena. The text approaches the topic at a conceptual level, and from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. It analyses the roles of key players in environmental policy, the nation state, non-governmental organizations and the business community. It continues with an examination of the importance of international relations (trade, east, west, north, south), and goes on to consider the prospects for sustainable development and social changes required for sustainable development to become a reality.
Sovereign states and the international regimes; non-governmental organizations and environmental policices; business and environmental policies; international trade and environmental policies; international co-operation - the European Union; the scope for north-south co-operation; implementing international environmental policices; policy scenarios for sustainable development; environment and society - shaping and future.
