Im Unterschied zu zeitgenössischen Diagnosen über den Zustand moderner Gesellschaften, geht die Analyse davon aus, daß die These der Desintegration dieser Gesellschaften empirisch völlig ungeklärt ist. Zur Durchführung von systematischen und empirischen Studien sind allererst...

In einem Buch mit dem Titel „Eigentum und Eigentumspolitik hatten Hans-Christoph Binswanger und Mitarbeiter bereits 1978 die Frage aufgeworfen, ob und wie das private Eigentum von der Ökologiefrage tangiert wird, und sie hatten, daran anknüpfend, Umrisse einer umweltkonformen...

Environmental problems have always been part of our history, of life, and work. Yet the way in which environmental problems are perceived and politicized has changed: If it was at first chiefly local and regional environmental problems that were recognized, in recent years global environmental...

Three topics dominate the formulation an international greenhouse-gas regime as part of an effective global environmental policy. Efficiency, equity, and uncertainty. And three major policy instruments are discussed as regards the implementation of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate...

Global environmental policy certainly could gain strength if the management of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) or of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) were made more efficient. However, such a minimalist strategy of efficiency improvement is no panacea: it can...

»Noch nie zuvor«, vermerkt Henry Kissinger in seinem Essay Die Vernunft der Nationen (1994), »mußten in die Gestaltung einer neuen Weltordnung so unterschiedliche Vorstellungen einfließen, und noch nie zuvor hatte eine Weltordnung eine so globale Dimension.« In der Tat, die neue Ära des...

Die Bekämpfung der Desertifikation hat sich die 1992 vereinbarte und 1994 in Kraft getretene Desertifikationskonvention, neben der Klimarahmen- und der Biodiversitätskonvention die dritte große Umweltkonvention, zum Ziel gesetzt. Ist zur Desertifikationsbekämpfung jedoch ein international...

The Committee for Development Policy is required by Economic and Social Council resolution 1991/46 to conduct triennially a review to determine the countries to be added or graduated from the list of least developed countries (LDCs). Since the previous review was conducted in 2000, the Committee...

The aim of this paper is to give a long term sustainability perspective on instrumentation in environmental policy, within a broad, also strategic, evaluative framework. To arrive at integrated insight, the basic function of policy instruments is discussed: why do you need them at all and how...

When historians in the far distant future look back upon the tumultuous twentieth century, they will likely judge the most outstanding feature to be the extraordinary increase in human numbers that has occurred during this relatively short time period. It took the entire history of humanity –...