Green Globe Yearbook 1992

This yearbook consists of two separate parts: analysis and reference. The first part is made up of ten articles written by independent experts with in-depth knowledge of their subject. The authors provide an up-to-date description and evaluation of the problem concerned, focusing on the results, impediments and challenges to international negotiations, conflicts, and agreements. Subjects covered in this first volume are ozone depletion, climatic change, biodiversity, endangered species, export of hazardous waste, population control, disarmament, environmental law, and sustainable energy development. The second part covers, in a systematic fashion, key data on international agreements on the environment and development, intergovernmental organizations with activities in these areas, and a selective group of non-governmental organizations. Some 100 organizations and conventions are included, each with a two-page spread devoted to them. This section gives information about organization/secretariat, resources/budget, policy measures or rules of conduct established/under negotiation, decision-making bodies and rules, and key publications. The section wil be continuously up-dated so that the information is always current.Table of ContentStratospheric ozone depletion - can we save the sky?, Irving Mintzer and Alan Miller; protection of the global climate - ecological utopia or just a long way to go?, Helge O. Bergesen and Anne K. Sydnes; idigenous peoples' role in achieving sustainability, Russel Barsh; the Antarctic environment, Olav S. Stokke; energy for sustainable development in the Third World, Amulya K.N. Reddy; trade with endangered species, Joanna Boddens Hosang; dumping on our world neighbours - the source of the international trade in hazardous wastes and the obstacles to a global ban, Jim Puckett; population's success story, environment's nightmare, Paul Shaw; the relationship between popular participation/democratic development, Jeanette Hartmann; the global challenge of Aids, Christer Jonsson; the inside out, the outside in, Ricardo Arnt.