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Interlinkages and the Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
W. Bradnee Chambers

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In recent years there has been growing awareness that a major reason for the worsening global environment is the failure to create adequate institutional responses to fully address the scope, magnitude and complexity of environmental problems. Much of the criticism directed at the global institutions has focused on the necessity for greater coordination and synergism among environmental institutions, policies and legal instruments, and the need for approaches that take better account of the inter-relationships between ecological and societal systems. This book seeks to fill the gap in knowledge and policy-making that exists, particularly in international law.

ISBN 978-92-808-1149-0, January 2008, 252 pages; paper; US$34.00, Order from UNU Press.

Developing Countries and the WTO
Edited by Gary P. Sampson and W. Bradnee Chambers

This book addresses the critical policy choices now facing developing countries with respect to trade policy. Experienced negotiators, scholars and trade officials from very different backgrounds offer policy prescriptions to secure a world trading system that will meet the needs of developing countries.

ISBN 978-92-808-1153-7, Tokyo, UNU Press, May 2008, 320 pages; paper; US$32.00, Order from UNU Press

Institutional Interplay: Biosafety and Trade
Edited by Oran R. Young, W. Bradnee Chambers, Joy A. Kim and Claudia ten Have

International institutions and the consequences of their interplay are emerging as a major agenda item for research and policy. As governments enter into an ever-increasing number of international agreements, questions arise about the overlap of issues, jurisdiction and membership. Of particular interest to practitioners and analysts is how this mélange of institutions at the international level intersects and interrelates to influence and affect the content, operation, performance and effectiveness of a specific institution, as well as the functioning of the overall global governance context. Biosafety, which is an issue that is relevant to numerous institutions, offers an excellent case study for exploring and applying interplay in practical terms.

ISBN 978-92-808-1148-3, Tokyo, UNU Press, February 2008, 200 pages; paper: US$30.00, Order from UNU Press

Download PDF of Book Biodiversity and Climate Change
Balakrishna Pisupati

While people and biodiversity are impacted by climate change, they also offer potential options to minimize such impacts. This compilation is an attempt to identify challenges posed by climate variability and climate change to biodiversity and how biodiversity can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. It also identifies some specific linkages between conservation, climate change and human development besides suggesting some actions at the national level to deal with these issues.This publication was lanched on May 22, 2007 to commemorate the International Day for Biological Diversity.

UNU-IAS, May 2007; 37 pages.

Download PDF of Book The Convention on Biological Diversity: Understanding and Influencing the Process

This is an updated edition of the Guide published in 2006 for participants in the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Curitiba, Brazil. The 2006 edition was prepared by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies by Sam Johnston, Senior Research Fellow and Charles Victor Barber, Research Associate; Tony Gross, Adjunct Senior Fellow and consultant to the Ministry of the Environment, Brazil, and Braulio Ferreira de Sousa Dias, Head of Biodiversity Conservation, Secretariat for Biodiversity and Forests, Ministry of the Environment, Brazil, with the generous support of Conservation International and the United Nations Development Programme’s Equator Initiative. The current edition was prepared by Shira Honig, with the assistance of Kate Dillon, of the Equator Initiative.

2008 Version: UNU-IAS, Equator Initiative, May 2008; 46 pages,
2006 Version: UNU-IAS, Equator Initiative, March 2006; 71 pages.

Urban Crisis: Culture and the Sustainability of Cities
Edited by M. Nadarajah and Ann Tomoko Yamamoto

This book offers fresh insights into the role of culture in fostering community development, environmental awareness and balanced economic growth, and it will be of particular interest to students of urban studies, academics, and civil society groups working on urban issues.

ISBN 978-92-808-1125-4, 450 pages; paper; US$37.00, December 2006

Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology: Achievements, Prospects and Perceptions
Albert Sasson

This book, authored by Professor Albert Sasson, provides a state of the art overview of conventional agricultural biotechnology; genetically engineered crops extension, commercialization, benefits and prospects; innovations in advanced crop biotechnology with many examples from developing countries; the future of agricultural bioindustry in both technologically advanced and developing countries.

Monterrey, UNU-IAS/ Coordination of Science and Technology of the State of Nuevo León (COCyTE, N.L), 2006; 444 pages.

Download PDF of Book Medical Biotechnology: Achievements, Prospects and Perceptions
Albert Sasson

This book explores the issues of advanced biotechnology for both developed and developing countries. It examines the progress made over the years and provides a snapshot of perceptions around this growing industry.

ISBN 92-808-1114-2; Tokyo, UNU Press, August 2005; 152 pages, US$28.00
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The WTO and Sustainable Development
Gary P. Sampson

This book identifies an inventory of policy issues that fall within the overlap between trade and sustainable development, and analyses the implications of this overlap. It presents policy options that are both ambitious and realistic, the pursuit of which could contribute to more coherent and mutually supportive action on the part of governments to both trade and sustainable development.

ISBN 92-808-1115-0; Tokyo, UNU Press, August 2005; 330 pages, US$45.00
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Reforming International Environmental Governance
W. Bradnee Chambers and Jessica F. Green (eds)

This book looks at the costs and benefits of different models and approaches to reforming international environmental governance and provides substantive analysis to future debates.

ISBN 92-808-1111-8; Tokyo, UNU Press, June 2005; 300 pages, US$30.00
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Trade, Environment, and the Millennium (2nd edition)
Gary P Sampson and W Bradnee Chambers (eds)

Updated edition on the trade and environment debate; a broadened and deepened examination of issues in the light of the experience of the failed negotiations in Seattle, and other relevant developments in the WTO over the past two years.

ISBN 92-808-1064-2, Tokyo, UNU Press, 2002, 450 pages US$26.95
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Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region
Fu-chen Lo and Peter Marcotullio (eds)

This book analyses the impact of globalisation on cities in the Asia-Pacific, focusing on the region's specific urban concerns and on broader theoretical issues surrounding social and environmental conditions in major metropolitan centres.

ISBN 92-808-1060-X; Tokyo, UNU Press, 2001, 550 pages; US$36.95
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