Multinational Corporations and the Global Environment

Abstract

Global Accord is a holistic approach to a complex set of environmental issues. It provides a much-needed analytical framework for examining how individuals, groups, and nations create environmental dislocations, and how nations can work together to solve ecological problems that cross their borders. The fifteen essays cover theoretical and empirical dimensions, actors and processes, law and economics, and international institutions and systems. Effective management of global environmental problems may become the most significant institutional challenge for the twenty-first century. The purpose of this book - the first in a series of scholarly investigations of global environmental accord - is to develop an integrated approach to interactions between environmental and social systems, and between ecological and decision systems, in order to untangle the connections between human actions and environmental consequences and to improve prospects for concerted global responses. Each chapter highlights the importance of recognizing differences in perspectives and priorities among nations of articulating norms for management of the global environment. Introduction : theoretical, empirical, and policy perspectives / Nazli Choucri -- Physical dimensions of global change / Thomas F. Homer-Dixon -- Growth, development, and environmental sustainability : profile and paradox / Nazli Choucri and Robert C. North -- The rise of global ecopolitics / Hayward R. Alker, Jr., and Peter M. Haas -- Eco-development perspectives on global change from developing countries / Francisco R. Sagasti and Michael E. Colby -- Multinational corporations and the global environment / Nazli Choucri -- Science and technology : the sources of change / Eugene B. Skolnikoff -- Environmental challenges and managerial responses : a decision perspective / Garry D. Brewer -- Economic perspectives on time comparisons : an evaluation of time discounting / Jerome Rothenberg -- Intergenerational equity : toward an international legal framework / Edith Brown Weiss. Economic perspectives on time comparisons : alternative approaches to time comparisons / Jerome Rothenberg -- Evolving international environmental law : changing practices of national sovereignty / Peter M. Haas with Jan Sundgren -- Negotiating an international climate regime : the institutional bargaining for environmental governance / Oran R. Young -- Pragmatic approaches to regime building for complex international problems / David G. Victor, Abram Chayes, and Eugene B. Skolnikoff -- Global accord : imperatives for the twenty-first century / Nazli Choucri and Robert C. North.