The Role of Regional Organizations in the Context of Climate Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Michael H. Glantz

      Pages 1-5

3. Executive Summary

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. The Regionalization of Climate-Related Environmental Problems

      • Michael H. Glantz

      Pages 9-9

   3. The Role of Regional Organizations in Addressing Climate Change and Other Complex Environment and Development Issues

      • Jag S. Maini

      Pages 10-10

   4. The Climate Change Issue: Scientific Aspects

      • Robert S. Kandel

      Pages 11-11

   5. The Climate Change Issue: Policy Aspects

      • James P. Bruce

      Pages 12-12

   6. Transnational Regional Responses to Global Climate Change: Options — Obstacles — Opportunities

      • Lynton K. Caldwell

      Pages 13-14

   7. An Environmental Security Dimension of Global Climate Change

      • Renat Perelet

      Pages 15-16

   8. Climate Change and Water Resources

      • Luis V. da Cunha

      Pages 17-17

   9. Regional Organizations and Climate-Related Changes in the Water Regime

      • Ödön Starosolszky

      Pages 18-18

   10. Climate Change and International Water Problems: Issues Related to the Formation and Transformation of Regional Organizations

       • James L. Wescoat Jr.

       Pages 19-19

   11. Regional Organization for Water Utilization in the Middle East

       • Ilter Turan

       Pages 20-20

   12. Transboundary Water Resources on the Iberian Peninsula

       • Rui Roda

       Pages 21-21

   13. Some Aspects of Regional Cooperation in Marine Sciences

       • Gunnar Kullenberg

       Pages 22-22

   14. The Potential Role of Regional Organizations Related to the Marine Environment in the Context of Global Climate Change

       • Edward Miles

       Pages 23-23

   15. Scarcity, Property Allocation, and Climate Change

       • Jean-Paul Troadec

       Pages 24-25

   16. The Organization of American States (OAS) and Issues of Environment and Development

       • Newton V. Cordeiro

       Pages 26-26

   17. Regional Organizations and Environmental Change: An East African Example

       • Sam Tewungwa

       Pages 27-27

   18. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Climate Change

       • Saleemul Huq

       Pages 28-28

The past two decades have seen a remarkable broadening of interest in global warming from a research concern on the part of a limited number of scientists to a political problem on a worldwide scale. The nature of this transformation would itself be a fruitful study for a mixed team of social scientists and natural scientists. It would be valuable to assess the differing nature of the staging posts along this road: the First World Climate Conference in 1979, which was a meeting of scientists talking to scientists; the Villach Assessment of 1985, which was a meeting of scientists whose report was given attention by the policy advisers of a number of governments; the Second World Climate Conference of 1990, which consisted of a scientific meeting followed by a Ministerial Meeting; and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992 signed by 158 countries at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in June 1992. The present publication is a welcome contribution of the followup to UNCED. By focusing on a specific problem, it avoids the pitfall of undue generalization and provides the basis for fruitful discussion between natural scientists, social scientists, and policymakers. To choose as the area of concentration a particular scale also helped to produce meaningful discussion likely to lead to action.

• Climate
• Climate Change
• Environmental Change
• Global Warming
• Globale Erwärmung
• Klima
• Umweltbelastung
• environment
• ecotoxicology
• water quality and water pollution
• air pollution and air quality

• Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA

  Michael H. Glantz

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