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This book, first published in 1997, examines the forced merger between national security interests and environmental policy makers arising from the Chemical Weapons Convention and its requirement to safely dismantle the world’s chemical weapons stockpiles. The two groups had to find a way to intersect and work together, and this book analyses the problems and politics involved.
This is the first book to examine in detail the relationship between the Cold War and International Law.
Decisions of the Board of Land Appeals, Office of Hearings and Appeals, Dept. of the Interior.
The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable development and the notion of solidarity rights.
Government and Environmental Politics details the emergence of the new social values that gave rise to the environmental movement and examines the federal government's response to the changing ideas and needs of the American people. Chapters describe such topics as postwar environmental politics, the environmental lobbies, development of the publicly owned national park and recreation system, federal protection of endangered species, official promotion of nuclear energy, and regulation of toxic substances. The contributors are Malcolm Forbes Baldwin, Thomas R. Dunlap, Frank Gregg, Samuel P. Hays, Michael J. Lacey, Robert Cameron Mitchell, Joseph L. Sax, Christopher Schroeder, and Michael Smith. Book jacket.