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Issue 14: February 2002
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New book analyzes
negotiations that
Global environmental problems require an unprecedented degree of international cooperation both in terms of scientific research and the harmonization of regulations that is achieved through negotiation. Scientific uncertainty, the complexity of the issues, and the wide range of actors have shaped a complicated negotiating process that is dissected and analyzed in a new book from UNU Press. Earth Negotiations: Analyzing 30 years of environmental diplomacy develops a phased-process model that breaks down the negotiating process into a series of phases and turning points, making it easier to analyze the roles of the different actors, the management of issues, the formation of groups and coalitions, and the art of consensus building.
Author Pamela S. Chasek's ultimate overall goal is to determine what lessons can be learned from past cases of multilateral environmental negotiation in order to help both practitioners and scholars strengthen the negotiating process and the quality of its results. Chasek is the founder and editor of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin,
the reporting service of the International Institute for Sustainable
Development on United Nations environment and development negotiations.
She is currently a visiting assistant professor and director of
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