Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, andfollowing the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environmentimplement and enforce actual international policies.

Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His recent publications includeWriting the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot).

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Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth CenturyWolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer

Chapter 1. From Nature to Environment: International Organisations and Environmental Protection before StockholmJan-Henrik Meyer

Chapter 2. Environmental Problem-solvers? Scientists and the Stockholm ConferenceEnora Javaudin

Chapter 3. Developing World Environmental Cooperation: The Founex Seminar and the Stockholm ConferenceMichael W. Manulak

Chapter 4. Only One Earth: The Holy See and EcologyLuigi Piccioni

Chapter 5. Sometimes its the Economy, Stupid! International Organizations, Steel and the EnvironmentWolfram Kaiser

Chapter 6. Making the Polluter Pay: How the European Communities Established Environmental ProtectionJan-Henrik Meyer

Chapter 7. (Re-) Thinking Environment and Economy: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Sustainable DevelopmentIris Borowy

Chapter 8.Towards Sustainable Development: The United Nations, INGOs, and the Crafting of the World Conservation StrategyStephen Macekura

Chapter 9. Protecting the Southern Ocean Ecosystem: The Environmental Protection Agenda of Antarctic Diplomacy and ScienceAlessandro Antonello

Chapter 10. Controlling the Agenda: Science, Policy and the Making of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeDavid G. Hirst

Conclusion: Setting Agendas, Building Institutions, and Shaping Binding International CommitmentsWolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer

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