Negotiating the Environment

This book elucidates the complexity of how participants engage in these negotiations through the various processes that take place under the auspices of the UN - primarily those related to climate, biodiversity and forest agreements.

Lauren E. Eastwood is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA.

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Chapter 1: The Politics of Nature and the Nature of Politics Chapter 2: Setting the Scene: The UN as an Ethnographic Research Site Chapter 3: The Contested Terrain of Action: Civil Society in UN Climate Negotiations Chapter 4: Civil Society Engagement in Regulating Biotechnology under the UN Chapter 5: The Elephant in the Room: The Treadmill of Production as the Root Cause of Environmental Harm Index