International Organizations and Environmental Policy

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This volume from the Policy Studies Organization provides critical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives on international organizations, the policy implications of these organizations, and the possible roles such agencies can play in international environmental policy. With contributions from a wide range of scholars, the work takes up such topical issues as the Rio Agenda of 1992 and its implementation; the role the European Union might play in environmental policy; the place of environmentalism in the development strategies and tactics of organizations such as the World Bank; and the development of international environmental law.

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ROBERT V. BARTLETT is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University in Indiana. He is the editor of Policy Through Impact Assessment: Institutionalized Analysis as a Policy Strategy (Greenwood Press, 1989) and coauthor of Environmental Policy in New Zealand: The Politics of Clean and Green (1993). PRIYA A. KURIAN is a fellow in the Women's Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of scholarly articles on environmental policy. MADHU MALIK is an instructor in the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University. She has published articles on environmental impact assessment and international environmental organizations.