Global Environmental Concerns: Strategies and Policies (In 3 Volumes)

Several recent discussions of global environmental change have suggested that concern about the social causes and consequences of environmental degradation beyond one’s own country or locality is in the national and individual self interest. Reinforcing the ability of other countries to cope with environmental problems is seen not only as a way to develop strategic allies, but also as a means to insure the stability of import and export trade. Linkages among environmental degradation, economic decline, and the debt crisis have been used to demonstrate the vulnerability of global financial institutions to environmental change. Self-interest is at stake in protecting global commons such as the atmosphere and oceans and in preventing the destruction of biodiversity and other ecologically and economically important resources. International security concerns also arise from the politically destabilizing influence of environmental impoverishment and activism, and from the possibility of thousands of environmental refugees moving across borders. This multi-volume set shall be highly useful to students and teachers of environmental science, life science, pollution control boards and all those interested in environmental studies.