Environmental Cooperation in Europe: The Political Dimension
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- Opening Remarks -- PART ONE The Globalization of Environmental Problems -- 1 Europe and the Atlantic Community in the Context of an Ecological World Order -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lost Battle: Is There a Future? -- 3. The Orderly Retreat: What Is Necessary? -- 4. Marignano Utopos: What Are Our Chances? -- 5. Epilogue -- 2 The State of the Global Environment: Is There a Need for an "Orderly Retreat"? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Major Stresses on the Global Ecological System -- 3. Is There a Need for "An Orderly Retreat"? -- 4. What Can Be Done? -- References -- 3 Global Cooperation for Sustainable Development -- Challenges to the North on the Road from Rio -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From "The Rio Spirit" to a New North-South Relationship -- 3. Integration of Environment and Development -- 4. Challenges to the Political Reality in the North -- 5. Conclusions -- PART TWO Economic and Institutional Capacities for International Environmental Cooperation -- 4 Affluence and Scarceness: The Effect of Economic and Sociocultural Capacities on Environmental Cooperation -- 1. Disaster Paradox and Capacity for Action -- 2. Ecology of Affluence - Ecology of Scarceness -- 3. Conclusions -- Further Literature -- 5 Economic and Institutional Capacities for Environmental Cooperation (Some Remarks on Volker von Prittwitz) -- PART THREE International Negotiating Processes in the Environmental Field and Their Results -- 6 Specific Characteristics of Environmental Diplomacy -- 7 Critical Attributes of International Environmental Negotiations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Anatomy of Negotiation -- 3. Characteristics of International Environmental Negotiations -- 4. Attributes of Environmental Negotiations: Critical Developments.