Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalization and the environment: an introduction / Khi V. Thai, Dianne Rahm, and Jerrell D. Coggburn -- Sustainable development in an international perspective / Ross Prizzia -- European global warming policy / David Howard Davis -- Transborder air pollution / Zachary A. Smith and Katrina Darlene Taylor -- Desertification / Steffan Bauer -- The environmental frontier of space / W. Henry Lambright and Anna Ya Ni -- Human rights to water / Zachary A. Smith and Kristi L. Ross -- Global environmental governance / Frank Biermann -- The role of the United Nations: from Stockholm to Johannesburg / Lisa Nelson -- The World Trade Organization: free trade and its environmental impacts / Fariborz Zelli -- United Nations conferences and the legitimization of environmental NGOs / Kyle Farmbry and Aroon Manorahan -- Global academia: the state of environmental learning and awareness / Brent S. Steel and Rebecca L. Warner -- Government green procurement in the U.S.: an approach to meeting global environmental challenges / Jerrell D. Coggburn and Dianne Rahm -- Environmental management / Laura E. Pasquale -- Sustainable waterfront development in the Great Lakes basin / Wendy A. Kellogg and Erica M. Matheny -- Getting agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability at the same time: what matters, what doesn't? / Edward P. Weber ... {et al.} -- Sustainability issues in public procurement / Brain Pangrle -- Managing nuclear waste / Catherine Horiuchi -- Inter-agency collaborative approaches to endangered species act compliance and salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest / Nicholas P. Lovrich ... {et al.} -- Eco-terrorism: a natural reaction to violence? / Micheal J. Mortimer -- Globalization, environmental challenges and North-South issues / Joyeeta Gupta -- Environmental justice: a global perspective / Celeste Murphy-Greene -- Globalization and growth of developing countries / Dang Tran -- Complexity and the science-policy interface / Kathi K. Beratan -- Multi-party environmental negotiations: the democratizing nations of Mexico and Ecuador / Jennifer E. Horan and Donna L. Lybecker.