World in Transition 2

Download or read book World in Transition 2 written by German Advisory Council on Global Change (WGBU) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International institutions and structures are crucial to the management of the global environment. The present arrangements are failing to cope adequately with the scale of the task and the demands placed on them, and alternatives are urgently needed. In this second volume of World in Transition, experts in the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WGBU) analyze the problems and set out comprehensive and persuasive policies for a successful future regime. Central to the future, it argues, will be a strengthened and more effective UN Environment Programme within an alliance organized around.