Private Environmental Regimes in Developing Countries: Globally Sown, Locally Grown

by Ralph H. Espach

This book assesses the recent growth and future prospects of private transnational environmental certification and standards regimes. Regimes of this type have proliferated in the last 20 years as businesses and environmental groups have sought to replace, or improve upon, traditional inter-governmental conventions and treaties. Recent theory and research suggest that these regimes transfer the environmental standards and norms of West Europe and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230616356
• ISBN13: 9780230616356
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"