The environment and international history

In: New approaches to international history

In: New Approaches to International History Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Anthropocentric environmentalism -- Placing (European) humans first -- Scrambles in Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific -- Enter the environmentalists? -- To the 1900 convention -- The 1902 bird convention -- Marine life -- World war -- New hope? -- Chapter 2 From war through war -- Whaling -- Oil pollution -- Fisheries -- The 1933 convention -- Birds in North America -- Transboundary pollution -- A World again at war -- The United Nations -- Chapter 3 Cold war, science, and the environment -- Containment, fisheries, and whaling -- Korea -- Science, nature, and the cold war -- The Great Leap Forward -- The atomic arms race -- From moratorium to test ban -- Victory for the environmentalists? -- Chapter 4 Silent Spring, Stockholm, and the North-South divide -- The new environmentalism -- Vietnam and the environment -- Marine life -- Decolonization and the North-South divide -- LDCs and the environment -- Stockholm -- Stockholm's legacy -- Omens -- Chapter 5 Creating regimes -- Stockholm: A legacy lacking -- The Anglo-American shift -- Marine life -- Acid rain and the climate conundrum -- The ozone quandary -- Chernobyl -- The Persian Gulf War -- Addressing ozone -- Hazardous waste -- To Rio -- The Rio conference -- The resistance to environmental regimes -- Chapter 6 The Anthropocene epoch? -- Addressing the Rio Agenda -- NAFTA -- Marine life -- Hazardous waste -- The ozone layer and climate change -- Johannesburg -- The challenges persist -- The climate conundrum continues -- Paris -- Nuclear power and plastics -- In the Anthropocene? -- Conclusion: Accomplishments and challenges -- Accomplishments -- Challenges at sea -- Challenges on land: Poaching, poison, and radiation -- Demographic challenges