Transboundary Environmental Negotiation or Organizational Cognition

Transboundary Environmental Negotiation: New Approaches to Global Cooperation

Author: Kevin Gallagher

Transboundary Environmental Negotiation is an important collection of articles generated by faculty and graduate students at MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. The contributors emphasize the ways in which global environmental treaty-making can be improved. They highlight new environmental problems that pose difficult global negotiation challenges and suggest new strategies for involving a range of nongovernmental actors in ways that can overcome the obstacles to transboundary environmentalism.

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Each of the 18 essays appearing here was previously published in an issue of the series, Papers on International Environmental Negotiation, published annually by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School from 1992 to 2001. The 24 contributing authors analyze the weaknesses of the international environmental treaty- making system; discuss the changes in attitudes, actors, and treaty- making arrangements necessary for more effective treaty making; identify several transboundary environmental problems which need global attention and could be more effectively negotiated if a new treaty-making system were in place; and discuss some ways of gauging the success of a more integrative system. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	About the Contributors
Pt. 1	Reshaping Attitudes: The Need to Rethink the Basis for Global Environmental Action	1
1	Defining the "Common Heritage of Mankind"	3
2	All Commons Are Local: The Antarctic Treaty System as a Regional Model for Effective Environmental Management	24
3	International Environmental Negotiation: A Strategy for the South	41
Pt. 2	A Shifting Cast of Characters: Beyond the State as Unitary Actor	83
4	Voluntary Codes of Management: New Opportunities for Increased Corporate Accountability	85
5	Science and Scientists in International Environmental Negotiations	107
6	Science and Economics in Climate Change and Other International Environmental Negotiations	130
7	Promoting North-South NGO Collaboration in Environmental Negotiations: The Role of U.S. Foundations	154
8	The Role of the Media in Environmental Issues: Newspaper Coverage in Four Countries	172
Pt. 3	New Tools and Arrangements: Adding Elements to the Treaty-Making System	201
9	Integrating Information Technology into Environmental Treaty Making	205
10	Enforcing International Environmental Treaties in Domestic Legal Systems	230
11	Capacity-Building Strategies in Support of Multilateral Environmental Agreements	252
Pt. 4	Possible New Treaties: Utilizing the Elements of a New System	277
12	Global Treaty on Renewable Energy	279
13	A Proposal for an Environmental Right-to-Know Convention: Negotiating the Barriers	304
14	The Global Nitrogen Initiative: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development and Global Change	335
15	A Proposed International Framework Convention on Bioinvasive Species	361
16	Harder than Physics: Negotiating an International Regime to Limit Transboundary Consequences of Nuclear Waste Disposal	376
Pt. 5	Gauging the Success of a More Integrative System	393
17	Linking Human Rights and Environmental Quality	395
18	The Potential for Environmental Contributions to Peace	414
	Bibliography	429
	Name Index	449
	Subject Index	457

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Organizational Cognition: Computation and Interpretation

Author: Theresa K Lant

Organizational Cognition is a collection of chapters written by scholars from around the world. The editors outline the history of two approaches to the study of cognition in organizations, the computational approach and the interpretive approach. The chapters represent some of the most cutting-edge research on organizational cognition, covering research that spans many levels of analysis. Much of the work in the book demonstrates how computational and interpretive approaches can be combined in a way that provides greater insight into cognitive processes in and among organizations. The editors conclude by elaborating the likely boundary conditions of each approach and how they can be combined for a more complete understanding of cognition in organizations.

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Outlines the history of two approaches to the study of cognition in organizations, the computational approach and the interpretive approach. Presents cutting-edge research at many different levels of analysis, as well as research that spans levels of analysis. Demonstrates how computational and interpretive approaches can be combined in a way that provides greater insight into cognitive processes in and among organizations. The editors teach management at New York University. Material originated at a spring 1998 conference held at New York University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)