Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia
| Author/creator | Steinberg, Paul F. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 272 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile STEAM Monographs D2O |
| Subjects |
| Series | American and Comparative Environmental Policy Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation In the absence of world government, effective national policy is essential to thesuccess of international environmental initiatives. Yet research on global environmental cooperationhas proceeded without models of policy change in developing countries, where most of the world'speople, land, and species are found. In this book Paul Steinberg provides a theoretical framework toexplain the domestic responses of developing countries to global environmental concerns. Drawing onextensive field research, he traces the evolution of public policies to protect biological diversityin Costa Rica and Bolivia over the past four decades, to understand how these countries emerged asleaders in tropical conservation and how international institutions might support similar outcomesin other countries.Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries explodes the myth thatdeveloping countries are too preoccupied with short-term economic growth and material survival todevote attention to global environmental concerns. Instead it offers a nuanced account of complex,decades-long efforts to create effective institutions, and analyzes the relative roles of foreignand domestic actors in this process. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2001030658 |
| ISBN | 9780262692663 |
| ISBN | 026269266X (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262692663 |
| Stock number | 026269266X 00015994 |
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