Description
Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements provides an accessible narrative on understanding the geopolitics of negotiating international environmental agreements and clear guidance on improving the current system. In this book, authors Lawrence Susskind and Saleem Ali expertly observe international environmental negotiations to effectively inform the reader on the geopolitics of protecting our planet. This second edition offers an additional perspective from the Global South as well as providing a broader analysis of the role of science in environmental treaty-making. Lawrence E. Susskind is the Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was the founding director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program as well as the Consensus-Building Institute. For his career of services to improving consensus-building practice, Professor Susskind received the first Kenneth Cloke Peacemaker Award for outstanding and lasting contributions in International Peace-building by Mediators Beyond Borders. Professor Susskind has advised the United Nations, the OECD, the World Bank and numerous national governments on environmental negotiations. His earlier books include Dealing with an Angry Public and Breaking the Impasse. ; Saleem H. Ali is a Professor at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland Australia where he also directs the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining and is a faculty member in the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program within the university’s School of Politics and International Studies. Professor Ali is also adjunct Professor at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources where he founded the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security. He was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011 and an Emerging Explorer by the National Geographic Society in 2010. His earlier books include Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future and Mining, the Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts.
