Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power

by Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Book Overview

How do international environmental standards come into being? One important way, as Elizabeth DeSombre shows in this book, is through the internationalization of regulations that one or more countries have undertaken domestically. Domestic environmental regulation, DeSombre argues, can create an incentive for environmentalists and industry--previously at odds with each other--to work together to shape international environmental policy. For environmentalists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262541076
• ISBN13: 9780262541077
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher