Exploring International Environmental Agreements 20.1

30 November, 1993
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Editorial: Global problems, government limits

“It is difficult to imagine success in global environmental protection without effective international law.” So says Jutta Brunée in this issue of Alternatives. No doubt she is right. We face a long and still growing list of environmental problems that transcend national boundaries. At the same time we are witnessing a rapid globalization of economic relations that is increasingly placing economic actors and arrangements beyond the effective control of individual nations. Until these trends are reversed we seem to have no choice other than to develop an effective international law regime, including effective incorporation of environmental protection provisions in international trade agreements and other such deals. ...

Editorial: Global Problems, government limits
Robert Gibson

Beyond Rio?: The Evolution of International Environmental Law
Jutta Brunnée

Protecting a Land Without a Country: The Antarctic Environmental Protocol
David S. Russell

Forging a Link: Two Approaches to Integrating Trade and Environment
Laurie Henderson

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Canadian, World, Technology Notes

Harms’ Way: Get with the programme
Dave Harms

Nova Scotia aquaculture initiative raises sustainability questions
Shira Golden
Inset: Drug use in aquaculture

McClure Crescent residents finally win
Jenifer Newcombe

A fertile issue: Making sewage safer in Metro Toronto
Julie Stauffer and James Saper

Canadian groups twinned with Ecuador and Eritera
Kevin Ells

Herbivore lawn maintenance
Lloyd Dean

Reviews

From Ideas to Action: Business and Sustainable Development by Jan-Olaf Willums and Ulrich Goluke
Our Country, the Planet by Shridath Ramphal
The Carbon Dioxide Report for Canada: An Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Energy Policy in Canada by Friends of the Earth, Robert Hornung, ed.
Nonviolence Speaks to Power by Petra K. Kelly
Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working From Traditional Resource Use by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch, eds.
Vanishing Rainforests: The Ecological Transition in Malyasia by S. Robert Aiken and Colin H. Leigh
Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World by Carolyn Merchant
Lore: Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge by Martha Johnson, ed.
Scientists on Gaia by Stephen H. Schneider and Penelope J. Boston
Healing Gaia: Practical Medicine for a Planet by James Lovelock
Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and US Volunteer Opportunities by Becky Buell, Victoria Clarke and Susan Leone, eds.
Environmental Vacations: Volunteer Projects to Save the Planet, 2nd ed. by Stephanie Ocko
Whitewash: Exposing the Health and Environmental Dangers of Women’s Sanitary Products and Disposable Diapers – What you Can Do About It by Liz Armstrong and Adrienne Scott
Making a Middle Landscape by Peter G. Rowe

Books Received for Review

Letters

Podium: It’s Time for a Peoples’ Council on Global Sustainability
Jakob von Uexkull

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