TY - BOOK AU - Susskind, Lawrence. TI - Environmental diplomacy: negotiating more effective global agreements SN - 9780195075946 U1 - 341.7/62SUS PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Environmental law, International N1 - Includes index N2 - Solutions to environmental problems require international cooperation, but global environmental treaty-making efforts, including the 1992 U.N.-sponsored Earth Summit in Brazil, have not accomplished much. International cooperation has been hampered by the conflicts between the developed nations of the North and the developing nations of the South; by the fact that science cannot accurately predict when or how environmental threats will materialize; and by the problem that the United Nations treaty-making system was never meant to handle threats to the environment ER -