Comparative Environmental Regionalism

Summary:

Comparative Environmental Regionalism focuses on environmental governance as a key issue of analysis to provide an important new conceptualisation of 'region' and regional power.

Examining both interregionalism and regional integration, the book goes beyond the traditional study of micro-regions within the EU to examine regions and regional institutions across Asia, Africa and the Americas. The focus on forms of governance allows a consideration of the variety of processes and mechanisms developed to deal with collective issues in addition to formal institutional cooperation.

Using globally based case studies, Comparative Environmental Regionalism will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental and regional politics, and international relations.

Contents:

1. Researching Comparative Regional Environmental Governance: Causes, Cases and Consequences
Lorraine Elliott and Shaun Breslin

2. European Union Environmental Policy
John Vogler

3. Pan-European Environmental Cooperation: Achievements and Limitations of the 'Environment for Europe' Process
Ralf Nordbeck

4. East Asia and Sub-Regional Diversity: Initiatives, Institutions and Identity
Lorraine Elliott

5. South Asia, its Environment and Regional Institutions
Ashok Swain

6. Sub-Saharan Africa: Fragmented Environmental Governance without Regional Integration
Daniel Compagnon, Fanny Florémont and Isabelle Lamaud

7. The Middle East and North Africa: Sub-Regional Environmental Cooperation as a Security Issue
Dora Kulauzov and Alexios Antypas

8. Under Construction: Debating the Region in South America
Kathryn Hochstetler

9. The North American Case
Debora L. VanNijnatten